Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. – Richard Cecil
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. – Richard Cecil
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. – Richard Cecil
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. – Richard Cecil