Excess Returns

Famous quotes containing the words excess and/or returns:

    “Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “So cruel prison how could betide, alas,
    As proud Windsor, Where I in lust and joy
    With a king’s son my childish years did pass
    In greater feast than Priam’s sons of Troy?
    Where each sweet place returns a taste full sour;”
    —Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)