Edmund Burke

A great empire and little minds go ill together.

Edmund Burke

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

Edmund Burke

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

Edmund Burke

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Edmund Burke

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

Edmund Burke

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Edmund Burke

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Edmund Burke

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Edmund Burke

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

Edmund Burke

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

Edmund Burke