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

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

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

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.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

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