Now, these strikers: Honest, they're not such bad people. Just foolish. They don't understand the complications of merchandizing and profit, the way we businessmen do, but sometimes I think they're about like the rest of us, and no more hogs for wages than we are for profits.

a machine for the hobnailing of shoes

All was funeral gloom and hope never whispered its cheering promises there.

, vol.I, New York 2001, p.244: idleness is an appendix to nobility; they count it a disgrace to work, and spend all their days in sports, recreations, and pastimes […]