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 BurkeAs the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcastโalternately tempestuous and sereneโso is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.
Edmund BurkeRestraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
Edmund BurkeVice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.
Edmund BurkeNothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.
Edmund BurkeThe starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot be owing to the stars themselves, separately considered. The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary occasions to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort of infinity.
Edmund Burke