top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods."
Standard
Customized
More
"Beauty... Is what you are after a lifetime of struggle in the face of hostility, surviving, and standing scarred and unafraid, triumphant before your enemies."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Adversity tests what the soul can endure."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Encouragement fuels great strength and great achievement."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Do not focus on the problem. Pray for strength to persevere."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Every situation you conquer, you find the strength, your never knew you had."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Unless you refuse the bad things happening to you, you will continue to suffer with your own consent!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again."
Author Name
Personal Development
"With grace, we find the strength to reach the goal."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods."
Strength
"It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community."
Business
"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."
Politics
"Invention is the mother of necessity."
Family
"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure."
Economy
"In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes."
Life
"The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery."
Animals
"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before."
Question
"In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing."
Dance
"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."
Wealth
bottom of page