"It is a matter of course and of absolute necessity to the conduct of business, that any discretionary businessman mus…"

"In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dan…"

"Any evolutionary science... is a close-knit body of theory. It is a theory of a process, of an unfolding sequence... …"

"The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; …"

"In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, co…"

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

"From the ownership of women the concept of ownership extends itself to include the products of their industry, and so…"

"However widely, or equally, or "fairly", it may be distributed, no general increase of the community's wealth can mak…"

"While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test o…"

"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before."