John Morley: “We will have to resort to the more difficult arts of persuasion and conciliation, in the place of the easier methods of…”

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

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

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 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.