John Morley: “If your seven propositions were law to-day, you would have made but a very small progress towards settling the land…”

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

I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.

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

I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.