John Morley: “Popular government is at the best difficult to work.”

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

A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.

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.