John Morley: “He never had much patience with people who cannot bear to hear what they cannot fail to see.”

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

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

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.

I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.