John Morley: “I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.”

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

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.

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

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.