“I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.”

“In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.”

“The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the...”

“Popular applause veers with the wind.”

“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.”

“I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.”