John Morley: “In this we are making a marked advance in humanity and common sense,--which is itself a kind of humanity.”

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

My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

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