It is a sad thing to say, but for South Africa true enough.

It removed from the path of Sir Alfred Milner the principal obstacle that had stood in his way ever since his arrival at Cape Town.

The Rhodesian party, deprived of its chief, was entirely harmless.

Rhodesian politics, too, lost their strength when he was no longer there to impose them upon South Africa.
One of the great secrets of the enormous influence which the Colossus had acquired lay in the fact that he had never spared his money when it was a question of thrusting his will in directions favourable to his interest.
None of those who aspired to take his place could follow him on that road, because none were so superbly indifferent to wealth.

Cecil Rhodes did not care for riches for the personal enjoyments they can purchase.