John Morley: “The politician, he used to tell his friends, must above all things have the tact of the Possible.”

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

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

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

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.