You can never plan the future by the past.
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Edmund Burke
Never cut what you can untie.
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Joseph Joubert
I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I gained one.
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Voltaire
I was never less alone than when by myself.
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Edward Gibbon
More Quotes By Edmund Burke
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on...
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." (1794)]
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
