Thomas Paine: “Give to any man a million a year, and add thereto the power of creating and disposing of places, at the expense of a…”

A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was opportunity.

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

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.