John Morley: “Yet the instinct of a strong mind and the lifelong habit of ardent industry carried him through his Sisyphean toil.”

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

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

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