From Burke, upon the recent displays provoked by Remonstrans, with comments interlarded and emphasis added:
To see [or perhaps to hear] nothing low or sordid from one’s infancy; to be taught to respect one’s self [the humanities]; to be habituated to the censorial inspection of the public eye [it predisposes one to self-examination and a certain punctiliousness, I doubt not]; to look early to public opinion [not merely private affairs]; to stand upon such elevated ground as to be enabled to take a large view of the widespread and infinitely diversified combinations of men and affairs in a large society; to have leisure to read, to reflect, to converse [ah!]; to be enabled to draw the court and attention of the wise and learned wherever they are to be found; to be habituated in the pursuit of honor and duty; to be formed in the highest degree of vigilance, foresight and circumspection, in a state of things in which no fault is committed with impunity, and the slightest mistakes draw on the most ruinous consequences.
