Edmund Burke: “We ought to understand it according to our measure, and to venerate where we are not able presently to comprehend.”

Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.

They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

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.