John Morley: “The modesty of your letter is as remarkable as its other qualities, and does you the highest honour.”

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.

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.

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.

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