John Morley: “This is not only entirely credible, it is certain; for the only body that could carry out such a promise had not been…”

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.

What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.

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.

If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.