Thomas Paine: “The concessions which formerly would have been received with the utmost gratitude, were rejected with disdain.”

Nothing can be more terrible to a Court or Courtier than the Revolution of France.

Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur, and this was the case in France.

Burke's Book is easily accounted for.--When a man in a wrong cause attempts to steer his course by anything else than some polar truth or principle, he is sure to be lost.

The more it is struck the more sparks it will emit; and the fear is it will not be struck enough.