An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. – Edmund Burke
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. – Edmund Burke
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. – Edmund Burke
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits. – Edmund Burke
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Whos sorry for a gnat or girl? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning