Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best though true is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.
Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?
Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we as a people assume responsibility?
There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others.