John Morley: “Indignation, he said in a thoroughly characteristic sentence, indignation is froth, except as it leads to action; mere…”

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.

We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.

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.