But the conservative, while lauding progress, is ever timid of innovation; his is the hand upheld to counsel pause; his is the signal advising slow advance.
然而,保守者赞颂进步时,总又畏惧革新;举手劝人暂停的是他,示意缓步前行的也是他。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · A Plea for Gas Lamps —