John Morley: “Now Carlyle, so mighty as he is in flash and penetration, has no eye for motives.”

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.

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.

They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.

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