John Morley: “It is a difference in life, in tradition, in history, in all the social things as well as articles of belief, that…”

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.

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

I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.

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