"I won't divide by Kings, a system whereby History is made Tory unawares and infants are made to hate History."

"What one really sees on the Continent, if one likes to learn from their statesmen and journals instead of from the ch…"

"As you see in my own Wee-Book, I think moral and intellectual facts as much facts for the historian as military or po…"

"Of course in calling Cromwell a "tyrant" I used the word in its strict sense; and in that sense I don't think he is f…"

"So we are to have a dissolution! I think it would be a good thing for Liberalism if we got a good beating this time a…"

"I am very wretched, really wretched, about Gladstone's retirement. I can't follow him everywhither, but he is my lead…"

"Last night I met Gladstone—it will always be a memorable night to me; Stubbs was there, and Goldwin Smith and Humphre…"

"I begin to see that there may be a truer wisdom in the "humanitarianism" of Gladstone than in the purely political vi…"

"Mr. Howard talked politics and told me the passage at the close of Carlyle's letter meant a plan of Lord Beaconsfield…"

"The fact is I am a little puzzled with "Liberals" who go in for enslaving Lorraine and turning Elsass, as Bismarck pu…"