John Morley: “It was true that a favourable verdict might just as reasonably be expected from the prepossessions of Dublin, as an…”

I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.

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

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.