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.

The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

Oh God, please find it within your heart to grant me a heart that looks after itself only because it has first looked after others. And help me to realize that anything less is not a heart.

Much of the philosophy of religious education has been based upon a false premise, and perhaps many have missed the essence of Christian experience, having had religious training take its place.

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

Cover the earth, before it covers you.

I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.

I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.

It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life

My husband is very funny and his humor has gotten us through a lot. He's good at defusing me.