This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
Edmund BurkeThe only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions.
Edmund BurkeSallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.
Edmund BurkeThere is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.
Edmund Burke