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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.