William Cecil Quotes

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

What! All this for a song?

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.

Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.

But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddles still bid us defiance, Old questions of Why and of Whence.

There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.

The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena.