In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes of industry.

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.