John Morley: “Yet I never knew any one who was so impressive in brief utterances conveying the sum of the matter....”

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

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.