Benjamin Disraeli: “His courage and his constancy were never surpassed by man.”

But an hour from an uninteresting speaker would be a great infliction.

He valued life only as a means of fulfilling duty, and truly it may be said of him, that he feared none but God.

The forms of the House of Commons are the result of accumulated experience and have rarely been tampered with successfully, while on the other hand a parliamentary government is by name and nature essentially a government of discussion.

Free from prejudices, his large mind sympathized with all classes of the realm.