William Ewart Gladstone
12 quotes.
Quotes by William Ewart Gladstone
- Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
- 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.
- Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.
- Duty is a power that rises with us in the morning, and goes to rest with us at night. It is co-extensive with the action of our intelligence. It is the shadow that cleaves to us, go where we will.
- Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
- Justice delayed is justice denied.
- 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.
- No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
- One example is worth a thousand arguments.
- The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
- The thrift of time will repay in after life with usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams, and waste of it will make you dwindle alike in intellectual and moral stature beyond your darkest reckoning.
- Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.