It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

England is the Mother of Parliaments

Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves

The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.

When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them.

Strange, what the heart can bear. It can carry grief beyond measure. It can bear a weight that is too great to speak of. But a heart can't bear the world. It has its limits...

I wasn’t as untrusting. I had faith in the goodness of people, the perfection of love.What happened?Everything ends. And it’s how they end that leaves the lasting effect.

Meaningful eye contact has the power to transcend time and space to connect us with others and can be one of the most gracious and important ways to demonstrate attention and respect.

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

We all want to be a little glamorous, a little playful and a little mischievous at times.

A horrible night might be hidden in a beautiful morning!

Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.

I never got a job I didn't create for myself.

If it's time to let go, JUST LET GO. You can't carry on through life with extra weight on your conscience.