Hypocrisy is folly. — It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of what he is not.
—Richard Cecil
Topics: Hypocrisy
The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
—Richard Cecil
Topics: Ignorance, Knowledge
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.
—Richard Cecil
Topics: Manners