John Morley: “In accepting an approver you do not incite him to do what is in itself wrong; only his own bad mind can make it wrong to…”

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

If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.

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…

It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.