All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund BurkeIt is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
Edmund BurkeHe 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.
Edmund BurkeIt is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.
Edmund Burke