John Morley: “Think, I beseech you; think well, think wisely, think, not for the moment, but for the years that are to come, before…”

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.

I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.

An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.