Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh. Robert Cecil More Quotes by Robert Cecil More Quotes From Robert Cecil A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness. Robert Cecil Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are. Robert Cecil We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable. Robert Cecil Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf. Robert Cecil leaf good faith evil Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. Robert Cecil avoiding scandal virtue disease