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‘It is scarcely to be calculated,’ (remarks Mr. Cecil) ‘what an influence the spirit of a Minister’s wife will have on his own, and on all his Ministerial affairs. If she does not come up to the full standard, to that extent she will impede him, derange him, and unsanctify him. If there is such a thing as good in the world, it is in the Ministerial office. The affairs of this employment are the greatest in the world. In prosecuting these with a right spirit, the Minister keeps in motion a vast machine; and such are the incalculable consequences of his wife’s character to him, that, if she does not assist him in urging forward the machine, she will hang as a dead weight on its wheels.’—Cecil’s Remains.