Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.

Quit the world, and the world forgets you.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.