John Morley: “My view was, and I stated it, that we ought to provide for this expenditure in a due proportion between direct and…”

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.

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

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.

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?