He has every quality for the first rank, and for the foremost place in that rank, save the one urging passion of enthusiasm.

It is a sense of humour, an engaging sense of diffidence, a continual deviation towards a mild and gentle cynicism, it is this spirit--the very antithesis of a fanatical temper--which keeps him from leadership.
The nation has reason on its side for suspecting Lord Robert Cecil.

In the mind of the British people nothing is more settled than the conviction that the conquering qualities of a great captain are courage and confidence.

He has given no sign of these qualities.

Nature, it would seem, has fashioned him neither pachydermatous nor pugilistic.