Edmund Burke

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. ”

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. ”

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. ”

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. ”

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. ”

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. ”