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.

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

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

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.

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

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 quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his consumption also undergoes a specialisation as regards the quality of the goods consumed. He consumes freely and of the best, in food, drink, narcotics, shelter, services, ornaments, apparel, weapons and accoutrements, amusements, amulets, and idols or divinities.