John Morley: “We have no rational course as a party but one, which is to adjourn for a while the solution of the grave parts of the…”

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

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

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.