John Morley: “They were steps towards the construction of a fabric of freedom and justice.”

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

True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.

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.