John Morley: “Her Majesty’s government were bound to admit that the Italians themselves are the best judges of their own interests.”

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

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

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.

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