Ireland must have been a hell on earth to him.

For all this deterioration one man and one man alone is responsible, Disraeli.

His patronage of a Christianity fashioned by himself is to me more offensive and trying than rank unbelief.

I have begun seriously to ask myself whether I shall ever be able to face “The Olympian Religion.

Let us make what choice we will of this or that particular achievement, how splendid a list it is of benefits conferred and public work effectually performed.

The history of nations,” he wrote in 1876, “is a melancholy chapter; that is, the history of governments is one of the most immoral parts of human history.

There is no incentive to Mammon-worship so remarkable as that which it affords.

He proclaimed the doctrine of nationality, and paid decorous homage to the principle of appeal to the popular voice.

It seems to me that the South has two objects in view: firstly the liberation of its trade and people from the law of tribute to the North; secondly and perhaps mainly, the maintenance of the slave system without fear or risk of Northern…

It will be clear that we concur with them, that the war should cease.

Up to a certain point, I must certainly make a stand.

Here is one of the very few instances in which the public opinion of the country at the eleventh hour reined back a warlike minister.

I threw overboard all my heavy armament and fought light.

Gladstone had given proof that he knew how to embody sentiment in acts of parliament, and he associated it with the broadest ideas of citizenship and policy.

England had undertaken responsibilities of empire such as never before lay on the shoulders or the minds of men.

The House of Commons, like all assemblies, is even less affected by immediate displays than by the standing impression of power.

The rude, monstrous, shameful and shameless attacks which you have endured, do but endear you to the nation.

I stop short of war as a means of correction.

It was the great glory of the Greeks that they had those full and large views of man’s nature, not the narrow and pinched ones which are sometimes found even among Christians.

None will fill her place for me, nor for many worthier than I.

The advocates of privilege used language about the workers, that in his generous and sympathetic mind fanned the spark into a flame.

So came about the establishment of an effective household suffrage in the cities and boroughs of England.

At last the time for speaking, and therefore for formulating my ideas came, and I have spoken according as I believe to be the sense of all the leading men with whom I acted from Peel’s death onwards, and within the sense not only of Lord…

When you have long persevered in mischief, you cannot undo it at an instant’s notice.

I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.