John Morley: “The beauty of justice is the beauty of simple form; the beauty of generosity is heightened with colour and every…”

I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

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

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.