John Morley: “So came about the establishment of an effective household suffrage in the cities and boroughs of England.”

If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.

I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.