Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness one of which is a lack the other an excess of courage.

Excess generally causes reaction and produces a change in the opposite direction whether it be in the seasons or in individuals or in governments.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

Up until the Depression recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

The monarchy is foremost a business and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.

The main business of religions is to purify control and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body books feed the mind beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret in my chilled age certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much we feel so little.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.