Edmund Burke

The traveller has reached the end of the journey! ”

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. ”

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. ”

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. ”

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. ”

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. ”

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. ”

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. ”

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. ”

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. ”