They have brought him too often into inferior company.
Lord Northcliffe, with all his faults, is a man to whom statesmen may speak their minds without loss of influence, but there are other newspaper proprietors, financiers of commercialized journalism, with whom a man of Mr.Churchill's power and position should hold no personal relations.

His is a mind which stands in need of constant communion with men of culture and refinement.

He knows the world by this time well enough, what he does not know are the heights.

His character suffers, I think, from association with second-rate people.

He is too heedless of his good name.
Is it too late for him to acquire strength of character?
His faults are chiefly the effects of a forcible and impetuous temperament: they may be expected to diminish as age increases and experience moulds.