Edmund Burke: “It cannot be a reward for what mere animal life must, indeed, sustain, but never can inspire.”

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

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.

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