Richard Cecil
10 quotes.
Quotes by Richard Cecil
- Appointments once made, become debts. 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.
- Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only can he securely lay down his head and close his eyes.
- Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is the 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.
- Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
- Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.
- It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.
- Method is the very hinge of business; and there is no method without punctuality.
- Self-will is so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit upon.
- The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
- Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.