Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has…

The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life.

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

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

Any evolutionary science... is a close-knit body of theory. It is a theory of a process, of an unfolding sequence... of cumulative causation. The great deserts of the evolutionist leaders... lie... in their having shown how this colorless …

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

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