Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. - Edmund Burke

The wild gas, the fixed air is plainly broke loose: but we ought to suspend our judgments until the first effervescence is a little subsided, till the liquor is cleared, and until we see something deeper than the agitation of the troubled and frothy surface.

[Alluding to Joseph Priestley's Observations on Air]

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.