Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are not too nicely to scrutinize motives as long as action is irreproachable. It is enough (and for a worthy man perhaps too much) to deal out its infamy to convicted guilt and declared apostasy.
Edmund BurkeI am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others
Edmund BurkeRestraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
Edmund BurkeHistory consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
Edmund Burke