The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Fell luxury! more perilous to youth
Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.

Fell luxury! more perilous to youth
Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - read more

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!

Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are,
and silently as they throw their silken chains about read more

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are,
and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart,
enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.

Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.