“Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.”
Men
“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”
AgeAll Quotes by Edmund Burke
“Education is the cheap defense of nations.”
Education“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”
Age“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.”
Religion“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
Patience“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”
History“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.”
Power“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
Power“It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.”
Men“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.”
Art“Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.”
Politics“A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
Change“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.”
Religion“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”
Wisdom“He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”
Great“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”
Change“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
Beauty“Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.”
Society“What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.”
God“I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.”
Business