The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge
The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products. – John Kenneth Galbraith
And a cloud of enraptured, sporting, buzzing little creatures of silk-dust swept or hovered over the undulating picture. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,
