John Morley: “I have from the first regarded the rising of the Soudanese against Egypt as a justifiable and honourable revolt.”

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.

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.

It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.