Edmund Burke

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.