John Morley: “He may have to deal with a famine; he may have to deal with a riot; he may take a decision on which the lives of…”

Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.

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.

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.