National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.