William Ewart Gladstone

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.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

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

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

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.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

A man’s library is a sort of harem.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Opportunity makes a thief.