Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

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

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

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.

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 possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

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

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.

Socialism is a dead horse.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

The power of knowledge is so great and forceful, if only we knew.

Books can kill you, while you are reading.

I told you. . .you belong in a castle.

A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.

More contact means more sharing of information, gossiping, exchanging, engaging - in short, more word of mouth.

There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.

I was never meant to be this thing.

I believe in nothing.