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

The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they cannot afford the effort of taking thought for the day after tomorrow; just as the highly prosperous are conservative because they have small occasion to be discontented with the situation as it stands today.

Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes of industry.

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.

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

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

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