The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.

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

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

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

Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community.

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.