Burke is entitled to our lasting reverence as the first apostle and great upholder of integrity, mercy, and honour in the relation between his countrymen and their humble dependents.
He shared the common fate of those who dare to strike a blow for human justice against the prejudices of national egotism.

But he was no longer able to bear obloquy and neglect, as he had borne it through the war with the colonies.

When he opened the impeachment of Hastings at Westminster, Burke was very near to his sixtieth year.

Hannah More noted in 1786 that his vivacity had diminished, and that business and politics had impaired his agreeableness.

The simpletons in the House, now that they had at last found in Pitt a political chief who could beat the Whig leaders on their own ground of eloquence, knowledge, and dexterity in debate, took heart as they had never done under Lord North.