I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.
I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.
The right honorable gentleman [Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke] is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave of Adullam and he has called about him everyone that was in distress and everyone that was discontented.