"But it is then, and basking in the sunshine of unmerited fortune, that low, sordid, ungenerous, and reptile souls swell with their hoarded poisons; it is then that they display their odious splendour, and shine out in full lustre of their native villainy and baseness."
A Letter from Mr. Burke to a Member of the National Assembly; In Answer to Some Objections to his Book on French Affairs 
Text copied online and cursorily corrected against Edmund Burke, <u>A Letter from Mr. Burke to a Member of the National Assembly; In Answer to Some Objections to his Book on French Affairs</u>, 3rd edition (Paris, Printed, and London, Re-printed for J. Dodsley, 1791). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=L1wPAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;