Edmund Burke: “Else the whole idea of propriety, that is, the only distinction between the just and chimerical in the arts, would be…”

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

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.

Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.