William Ewart Gladstone

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

I was brought up to hate and fear liberty. I came to love it. That is the secret of my whole career.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

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

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books – even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Sexes make no Difference; since in Souls there is none: And they are the Subjects of Friendship.

What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.

A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

None of us should be defined by the worst thing we’ve ever done.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Necessity does everything well.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.