Robert Cecil

“Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.”

“Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.”

“Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.”

“Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.”

“A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.”

“People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.”