Edmund Burke — "Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."

"Difficulty is a severe instructor, always at our elbow."

"It is a general error to imagine that those whom we call authors are the only writers. There is another class of writers, and a very numerous one, who are in the habit of writing without ever putting …"

"The march of the human mind is slow."

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

"The effects of liberty on the human mind are not always favourable to the peace of society, or to the order of a state."