Richard Cecil

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.