In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

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.

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.

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

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.