Edmund Burke: “The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise.”

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

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

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.