He’s gone pretty far already, and he’s not the sort of man to stop halfway; I happen to know that (without any suggestion, of course, of his standing for election) his name has been mentioned several times, in conversation, and not at all unfavourably, at the Academy of Moral Sciences. And so, one can’t say yet, of course, that he has reached the pinnacle of fame, still he has made his way, by sheer industry, to a very fine position indeed, and success⁠—which doesn’t always come only to agitators and mischief-makers and men who make trouble which is usually more than they are prepared to take⁠—success has crowned his efforts.”