John Morley: “So in the ghastliest wreck of life, men still hope and seek for some mysterious cleansing of the soul that shall repair…”

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

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.

Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.

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