John Morley: “You can only govern men by imagination: without imagination they are brutes.... ’Tis by speaking to the soul that you…”

Do not weary or fret or nag him with your superior wisdom.

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.