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

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 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.

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

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.

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