John Morley: “I cannot forecast the changes which will follow; but it is easy to see what the first step should be.”

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.

I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.

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