The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading. - Edith Wharton
I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too. - Amit Kalantri
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get. - Samuel Johnson
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. - Helen Keller
Sorrow is a sanctuary as long as self is kept outside. [...] let us not foster, embrace, rekindle and indulge our grief. For then our sorrow is a selfish and luxurious fiction, a ground in which the Holy Spirit will not dig. - Frederick William Faber
Financial parasites: greedy people who live luxurious life at the expense and hard work of others." ~ , an excerpt from the book, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul - Angelica Hopes