John Morley: “I go to the next point, the apprehensions lest if we based our system on numerical strength alone, a great injustice…”

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.

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

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