On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.

On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.

Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.