John Morley: “A sacred sorrow seems to be profaned by bringing it within the touch of worldly cares.”

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.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

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

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.