John Morley: “Such strange violence in calm natures, such pharisaic pretension in a world where we are all fallen, remains a riddle.”

Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.