“If Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fished him out again, that would be a calamity. ”

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”

“It has been my lot to have found myself in many distant lands. I have never been in one without finding a Scotchman, and I never found a Scotchman who was not head of the poll.”

“An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.”

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”

“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”

“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”