Note 822 — Chapter XXVIII · CONKLING AND CURTIS AT ROCHESTER 1877

"Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, while thousands of great cattle beneath the shadow of the British oak chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field, that of course they are many in number, or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour."—Edmund Burke. George H. Jennings, Anecdotal History of the British Parliament, p. 159.