John Morley: “I cannot forget how hostile he was to the movement for freedom in the Balkans.”

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

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

I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.

But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.