All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.
Edmund BurkeAn entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.
Edmund BurkeIt is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.
Edmund BurkeThe same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.
Edmund BurkeIt is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.
Edmund Burke