Edmund Burke: “I know that there is a leaning to prosperity, however obtained, and a prejudice in its favor.”

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

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.

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