Quotes about Profusion

There are also many descriptions in the poets and orators, which owe their sublimity to a richness and profusion of images, in which the mind is so dazzled as to make it impossible to attend to that exact coherence and agreement of the allusions, which we should require on every other occasion.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.