Edmund Burke: “These occupy our minds; they give us another taste and turn; and will not suffer us to be more than transiently amused…”

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?