Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.

This stretch of the Thames from London Bridge to the Albert Docks is to other watersides of river ports what a virgin forest would be to a garden. It is a thin…

All idealization makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity - it is to destroy it. Leave that to the moralists, my boy. Hist…

Between the crowded houses of Gravesend and the monstrous red-brick pile on the Essex shore the ship is surrendered fairly to the grasp of the river. That hint…

The world appears like a great family, Whose lord, oppressed with pride and poverty, (That to the few great bounty he may show) Is fain to starve the numerous …

The democracy which shows up in the United States and in England is not an ideal democracy, because the will of the people is under the pressure of property, w…

When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but on…