William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

Never complain and never explain.

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.