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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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