Edmund Burke

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Edmund Burke

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Edmund Burke

The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Edmund Burke

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

Edmund Burke

Those who attempt to level, never equalize.

Edmund Burke

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

Edmund Burke

Too much idleness, which I have observed, fills up a man’s time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever.

Edmund Burke

You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke