John Morley: “The crucial suggestion, the expediency, namely, of making the landlord pay compensation to the tenant for disturbing…”

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.

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.

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.