John Morley: “He told the House that reform should no longer be allowed to determine the fate of cabinets, and the House laughed.”

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

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.

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