John Morley: “Unluckily it would seem to need at least the genius of a Bismarck, to perform with precision and success the delicate…”

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.

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

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.