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

The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.

Socialism is a dead horse.

The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.

There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.

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.

Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.