“I’ve never had the luxury of political opinions”

“I’ve never had the luxury of political opinions”

“Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get. ”

“...luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world. That...”

“And yet for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean. Superfluity comes sooner by whit...”