It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.
William E. GladstoneTo 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.
William E. GladstoneMy only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.
William E. GladstoneIreland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!
William E. Gladstone