If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.Edmund Burke
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.Edmund Burke
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.Francis Bacon
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.Francis Bacon
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.Francis Bacon