John Morley: “A man has no business to lay himself out for being prime minister, or to place himself in the way of it, unless he is…”

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.

Do not weary or fret or nag him with your superior wisdom.

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

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