Popular applause veers with the wind.

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.

I heard that I am your biggest disappointment, yet, in my heart, I know and feel that I am the greatest version of myself ever and celebrate myself each and every day

Affection is invaluable. I will accept your heart as payment and change your mind.

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which I think is a kind of human miracle.

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!

Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates.

When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.

The steps aren’t enough. Feel the music.