John Morley: “But if you have to drive a man out of a wood, you must yourself go into the wood to drive him.”

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.

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

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

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.