[A]rt can never give the rules that make an art. - Edmund Burke

Nor is prescription of government formed upon blind unmeaning prejudices—for man is a most unwise, and a most wise, being. The individual is foolish. The multitude, for the moment, is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and when time is given to it, as a species it almost always acts right.

It is an obvious truth, that no constitution can defend itself: it must be defended by the wisdom and fortitude of men.

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