Lord Acton

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

—Lord Acton

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

—Lord Acton

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

—Lord Acton

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

—Lord Acton

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

—Lord Acton

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

—Lord Acton