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.

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

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

Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.

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

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

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.