William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.Collection: Heart
England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.Collection: Government
Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.Collection: Children
Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.Collection: Summer
What! All this for a song?Collection: Song
A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Stranger
Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.Collection: Age
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.Collection: Simple