Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (3 April 1777); as published in The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke (1899), vol. 2, p. 206
1770s
Impressions and Comments http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8ells10.txt (1914)
“Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.”
Speech to the National Council of the Evangelical Free Churches at the City Temple, London (25 April 1899) for the 300th anniversary of Oliver Cromwell's birth, quoted in The Times (26 April 1899), p. 12.
Backbench MP
“If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.”
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 1
Space (1912)
Context: Remember his mind and no other part of him lived in his new world. He said it gave him an odd sense of detachment to sit in a room among people, and to know that nothing there but himself had any relation at all to the infinite strange world of Space that flowed around them. He would listen, he said, to a great man talking, with one eye on the cat on the rug, thinking to himself how much more the cat knew than the man.
Source: Drenai series, Waylander II: In the Realm of the Wolf, Ch. 2
“If she kissed him, would he taste like blood or cloves or a mixture of the two?”
Source: Lady Midnight
“Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.”
Res secundæ valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.
X, 1, 40.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book X
