Richard Cecil

I cannot look around me without being struck with the analogy observable in the works of God.

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.

It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.