I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, a — Edmund Burke

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) Manners are of more importance than laws. . . . Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we… Read more → To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. On American Taxation (1775)

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus Never underestimate your own ignorance. speech Albert Einstein One death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic.   attributed Josef Stalin Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. Les Plaisirs et les Jours (1896) Marcel Proust