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

There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.

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.

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

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

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery

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