“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
