Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.
Edmund BurkeOld religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.
Edmund BurkeNobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund BurkeNobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke