William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley 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.

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.

Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.

Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.