John Morley: “He has been dispossessed, not for any fault of his own, but because clerical dominion was deemed intolerable.”

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.

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

I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.