Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
William E. GladstoneThe oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.
William E. GladstoneThe 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!
William E. GladstoneAs the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.
William E. GladstoneIt 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. Gladstone