Gladstone’s letters to her may serve to show him as he was, in the midst of his labours in the Palmerston government—how little his native kindliness of heart and power of sympathy had been chilled or parched either by hard and ceaseless toil, or by the trying atmosphere of public strife.
Morley highlights Gladstone's enduring kindness and empathy despite the pressures of political life.
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True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
Can wool repair The colours that it lost when soaked with dye?
For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.
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