"The poet of England, he gave to the love of country, to patriotism as nowadays we call it, a voice which never shall …"

"For Shakespeare, as I have said, was above and before all things a lover of England. With how bitter a contempt would…"

"Again Shakespeare proves himself a gentleman in his moderation. He does not insist. He harbours no inapposite desire …"

"How far is patriotism necessary to the equipment of a statesman? Now patriotism, out of fashion though it be to-day, …"

"Genius transcends the common rules of life and blood."

"Like most Radicals, he [Richard Cobden] lived in a fool's paradise where facts are of no account, and where, if princ…"

"The political game, as it is played in England, bears this resemblance to the game of fives, that you must get your a…"

"Genius transcends the boundaries and frontiers of race, and makes its happy possessor an understanding citizen in wha…"

"He gives always the impression of fearless sincerity, and that is more important than being always right. One always …"

"The “Musings Without Method” which Whibley contributed once a month to Blackwood's for thirty years, excepting two mo…"