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

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 dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery

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.

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

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

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