John Morley: “Whatever was open to any degree of exception in Palmerston, has this year received a tenfold development in Disraeli.”

I would use my best endeavours to make these States independent in matters of administration.

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.

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.