John Morley: “I never knew anybody less guilty of the tiresome sin of arguing for victory.”

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

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.