All that was personal in his resources--his labour, his experience, his judgment, his eloquence--all this he put unreservedly at the Convention's service: but he abstained, and I think not only out of policy but as the result of silent anger, from making the least use of that authority which he still possessed and which he might easily have augmented.

If in the result he took too little upon him, lest anyone should ever say he had taken too much, and if because he left too much to others Ireland was the loser, Ireland must bear not the loss only but the blame.
Many even of those who most agreed with his action had, under the influence and events of these years and of public comments on these events, lost confidence in him.

Some weeks after the Convention assembled, a very able priest said to me that he regarded Redmond as "a worn-out man." The genuineness of his regret was proved by the delight with which he heard what I could tell him.

Never in my life did I find so much cause for admiration of Redmond as in the early stages--which were in many ways the most important--of our meetings.

Never at any time did I know him exert so successfully his charm of public manner.