My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.
William E. GladstoneLetter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.
William E. GladstoneThrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.
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