Walter Bagehot: “He was a great partisan, and he applied a capacity of argument, and a faculty of intellectual argument rarely equalled…”

He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.