William E. 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.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

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

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

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

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

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.