John Morley: “Certainly in him more than in any one I have known, was exhibited the character of our life as a dispensation of pain.”

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

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.