“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great e...” — Edmund Burke Quote

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

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

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.