John Morley: “I am not so much afraid of the Pope as of the Italian government and court.”

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

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.