Yet the irritation did not conceal a magnificent loyalty to his friends, and it was in his days of comparative poverty that he shared his means with Barry and with Crabbe.
His alliance with Fox is the classic partnership in English politics, unmarried, even enriched, by the tragedy of its close.

He was never guilty of mean ambition.

He thought of nothing save the public welfare.
No man has ever more consistently devoted his energies to the service of the nation with less regard for personal advancement.

No English statesman has ever more firmly moved amid a mass of details to the principle they involve.
He was a member of no school of thought, and there is no influence to whom his outlook can be directly traced.

His politics, indeed, bear upon their face the preoccupation with the immediate problems of the House of Commons.