John Morley: “It was necessary to provide for the savings of the people with (a) safety, (b) cheapness, (c) convenience.”

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

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.

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

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?