Custom reconciles us to everything.

"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."

Edmund Burke

"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."

Edmund Burke

"We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us."

Edmund Burke

"Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist."

Edmund Burke

"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."

Edmund Burke

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

Edmund Burke