John Morley: “Gladstone said on Nov. 2, 1882: “It is no part of the duty incumbent upon us to restore order in the Soudan.”

An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

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

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.