1.
England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
2.
What! All this for a song?
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
3.
Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
4.
Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
5.
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.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
6.
Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
7.
A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
8.
Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
9.
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.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley