John Morley: “What we want at present is a positive force to carry us onward as a body.”

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

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

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

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.