If You're Not Very Clever You Should

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.

The First Favourite Was Never Heard Of, The Second Favourite Was Never Seen After The Distance Post, All The Ten-to-oners Were In The Rear, And A Dark Horse Which Had Never Been Thought Of, And Which The Careless St. James Had Never Even Observed In The List, Rushed Past The Grand Stand In Sweeping Triumph.

Nine-tenths Of All Existing Books Are Nonsense.

I Am Myself A Gentleman Of The Press, And Have No Other Escutcheon.

If The History Of England Be Ever Written By One Who Has The Knowledge And The Courage,-and Both Qualities Are Equally Requisite For The Undertaking, - The World Will Be More Astonished Than When Reading The Roman Annals By Niebuhr.