“ In an age whose boast of intellectual equality flatters all our self-complacencies, the world suddenly acknowledged that it had lost the greatest of men; in an age of utility, the most industrious and common-sense people in the world could find no vent for their woe and no representative for their sorrow but the solemnity of a pageant ”

“ I doubt not that among all orders of Englishmen—from those with the highest responsibilities of our society to those who perform the humblest duties—I daresay there is not a man who in his toil and his perplexity has not sometimes thought of the Duke, and found in his example support and solace. ”

“ Though he lived so much in the hearts and minds of his countrymen—though he occupied such eminent posts and fulfilled such august duties—it was not till he died that we felt what a place he filled in the feelings and thoughts of the people of England. Never was the influence of real greatness more completely asserted than on his decease. ”