Edmund Burke: “The most fondly jealous of husbands sold their wives.”

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.