John Morley: “No era was ever so little the era of the specialist.”

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

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.

I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.

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.