Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.
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.
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.
I have known ninety-five of the world’s great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.
No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.
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.
To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.
National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
One example is worth a thousand arguments.
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.
All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut.
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.