John Morley: “Now Carlyle, so mighty as he is in flash and penetration, has no eye for motives.”

Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.

It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.

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.

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.