Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.

Socialism is a dead horse.

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.

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

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.

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