“Blest hour! it was a luxury — to be!”

“...there is no accessible luxury. There is no aspirational luxury. It’s either luxury or not luxury.”

“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”

“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”

“It is a luxury to be understood.”

“Tis soothing, oh! most soothing to the heart,
To rove 'mid scenes where once we have been blest!
Each tree, each blossom, has a thrilling charm;
They seem memorials of those happier hours :
The very sigh that tells they are no more,
Is sweet unto the spirit; former days,
And former feelings, rise upon the soul,
Dear as they once have been.”

“Budget the luxuries first.”

“Hypocrisy is a luxury of the powerful.”

“The past is the luxury of proprietors.”

“The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.”