Edmund Burke

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false reptile prudence, the result, not of caution, but of fear.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded.

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.