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

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.

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

Into the cultural and technological system of the modern world, the patriotic spirit fits like dust in the eyes and sand in the bearings. Its net contribution to the outcome is obscuration, distrust, and retardation at every point where it touches the fortunes of modern mankind.

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

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.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community.