William Ewart Gladstone

If you weren’t such a great man, you’d be a terrible bore.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to haunt for happiness

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Hurricanes are named after people, baby, and I hope you know that falling in love with me will be so much more treacherous than boarding up the windows and waiting for me to pass.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

I am the captain of my soul.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.

Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.