John Morley: “The award, though hardly a surprise, still inflicted a lively twinge of mortification on the masterful and confident…”

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

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