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.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

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

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.

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

The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.

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