The earliest recollections of my life are bound up with him, and his death takes away a large past of the little interest which remained to me in this most uninteresting world.

The loss to the Admiralty for the special work in which he was engaged will be almost irreparable." -- Froude, who brought his own daughters with him, entered easily into the changed conditions.

He was not given to lamentation over the past, and if he regretted anything it was the want of Puritan earnestness, of serious purpose in life.

He had an instinctive sympathy with men of action, whether they were soldiers, sailors, or statesmen.

For mere talkers he had no respect at all, and he was under the mistaken impression that they governed the country through the House of Commons.