On that I have most firmly made up my mind.

I do not believe that it is in his nature to be a month in office without caballing against his colleagues.

["There never was a direct personal rival, or one who was in a position which, however reluctantly, implied rivalry, to whom he has been just; and on the fact of this ungenerous jealousy I do not understand that there is any difference of opinion."-- Lord Cockburn's Journal.] "'He is, next to the King, the most popular man in England.

There is no other man whose entrance into any town in the kingdom would be so certain to be with huzzaing and taking off of horses.

At the same time he is in a very ticklish situation, for he has no real friends.