Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important. - John Morley

I want to take in all these labour questions from the largest possible nationalist point of view, and it is this—that while the State should do all that it prudently can to protect the health and life, not only of women and children, but of the whole assembly of workers, it is absurd, it is perilous to thrust Acts of Parliament, as I have said before, like the steam ram-rod into the delicate machinery of commercial undertakings.

There is a loud cry in these days for clues that shall guide the plain man through the vast bewildering labyrinth of printed volumes.

As for progress, what signs of it are there now? And all we Victorians believed in it from the Utilitarians onwards.