“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Little things affect little minds.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

That requires that we listen to one another and get challenged and grow by living with difference within the body of the church.

Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.

If you’re crazy, there’s two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

The Brady ‘Campaign Against Illegal Guns’ is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.

There’s a very simple reason for focusing on the nuclear issue. Many, many issues are of supreme importance in one way or another, but if we blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons, no other issue is really going to matter.

I don’t know where hell is … another dimension, perhaps, or another plane of reality.

The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.