John Morley: “Humility as a sovereign grace is the creation of Christianity.”

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.

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.

I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.

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