I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.
As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.
Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.
The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.
Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.
Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they have not, that which they possessThey scatter and unloose it from their bond,And so, by hoping more, they have but less;Or, gaining more, the profit of excessIs but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.
Nothing in excess.
Riches are for spending.
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- it gives a lovely light!
Willful waste brings woeful want.
To go too far is as bad as to fall short.
I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad.
The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.
We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.
Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.
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