All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.
William E. GladstoneSwimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
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. GladstoneMediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
William E. Gladstone