John Morley: “I have known one man as free from suspicions as was Lord Aberdeen, but he was not a politician.”

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

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

Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.

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.