John Morley: “I have never by any conscious act yielded my allegiance to any person or party in matters of religion.”

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

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

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.