John Morley: “After the extension of the franchise to the workmen, everybody felt, in a happy phrase of that time, that “we must…”

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

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

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

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.