John Morley: “The politician, he used to tell his friends, must above all things have the tact of the Possible.”

They might learn how the true gentleman speaks of one whom he cannot but admit to have devoted a long life to the search of truth, and allow to have sacrificed every personal prospect to the promulgation of that which appeared to him as…

Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.

Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.

Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.