John Morley: “In public life a man of elevated mind does not make his own self tell upon others simply and entirely.”

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

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

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.