Edmund Burke: “It is no simple, no superficial thing, nor to be estimated by superficial understandings.”

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.