Edmund Burke: “For the spirit of distrust makes the soldier suspicious, and intimidates the general.”

They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.

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

The improvements of the National Assembly are superficial, their errors fundamental.