John Morley: “It is impossible that to a country like England the affairs of foreign nations can ever be indifferent.”

I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.

Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.