Invention is the mother of necessity.

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

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.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

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

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. In an industrial community this propensity for emulation expresses itself in pecuniary emulation; and this, so far as regards the Western civilized communities of the present, is virtually equivalent to saying that it expresses itself in some form of conspicuous waste.

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