John Morley: “Thoughts of that kind, my Lords, are what give to Indian politics and to Indian work extraordinary fascination, though…”

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.

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

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

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.