John Morley: “Now I do not believe anybody--either in this room or out of this room--believes that we can now enter upon an era of…”

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.