James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Cecil

Duties are ours; events are God’s.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at me six days in the week, to see what I mean on the seventh.

Nothing seems important to me but so far as it is connected with morals.

Self-will is so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know what they mean when in it.