John Morley: “The article in the Quarterly is clever; and what it says, moreover, on the merits of the income-tax is true.”

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.

An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.

What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.

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.