To innovate is not to reform.

-Burke, Edmund
  A Letter to a Noble Lord.

To reform a world, to reform a nation no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

-Carlyle,Thomas
  Signs of the Times.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

-Carlyle,Thomas
  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,'Corn Law Rhymes'.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessaryelements of a healthystate of political life.

-Mill,John Stuart
  On Liberty.

If everything is caused by innumerable'factors,'then we had best be very careful in any practical actions we undertake. We must deal with many details, and so it is advisable to proceed to reform this little piece and see what happens, before we reform that little piece too. 574

-Mills, C(harles) Wright
  The Sociological Imagination, ch.4.

   If the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merelya careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper, combining with the firm maintenance of established rights the correction of private abuses and the redress of real grievances,I can for myself and my colleagues undertake to act in such a spirit and with such intentions.

-Peel, Sir Robert
  TheTamworth Manifesto.

[He] reckoned a body could reform the old man with a shotgun, maybe, but he didn't know no other way.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  JudgeThatcher's opinion of Pap.TheAdventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.5.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

-Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of
  Attributed remark,7 Nov.