Quotes from Lord David Cecil

A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.

Power rests in tranquillity.

A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise.

It does not matter that Dickens' world is not life-like; it is alive.

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 being what he is not.