John Morley: “For the grand characteristic of suspicion after all, as of superstition, is to see things that are not.”

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.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

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.

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.