John Morley: “We always do best to seek rational explanations in large affairs.”

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

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.