John Morley: “You have nothing to trust to but your own energy and the sublime instinct of an ancient people.”

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.

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

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

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.