John Morley: “May He who has of late so wonderfully guided, guide me still in the critical days about to come.”

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

I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.