"A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself."-Disraeli's description of Gladstone.
"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God as can be your own. Remember that He who has united you together as human beings in the same flesh and blood, has bound you by the law of mutual love; that that mutual love is not limited by the shores of this island, is not limited by the boundaries of Christian civilisation; that it passes over the whole surface of the earth, and embraces the meanest along with the greatest in its unmeasured scope."- Gladstone in the Midlothian campaign in 1879, when he was speaking about the "enormous mischief of war,"
For two centuries (17th -18th), if judged by the standards of most of Christendom, Scottish worship had been peculiarly defective, colourless. drab, dominated by doctrinal preaching, and lacking in the devotion. - Quoted in Andrew L Drummond and James Bulloch, The Church in Victorian Scotland,p.201
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