George Herbert was his favorite poet.

He used to carry his poems about with him on the mountains, and an expurgated "Christian Year"-- the only thing he ever took from the High Churchmen--which he had made for himself, and which he and Catherine knew by heart.

In some ways he was not a bigot at all.
He would have had the Church make peace with the Dissenters; he was all for up setting tests so far as Nonconformity was concerned.

But he drew the most rigid line between belief and unbelief.

He would not have dined at the same table with a Unitarian if he could have helped it.
I remember a furious article of his in the "Record" against admitting Unitarians to the Universities or allowing them to sit in Parliament.
England is a Christian State, he said; they are not Christians--they have no right in her except on sufferance.