The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.
Edmund BurkeIt is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.
Edmund BurkePrudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.
Edmund Burke