He was a dynamic and engaging speaker.

His rage and troble both pronounce him guiltles Of this attempt, which makes mee rather doubt Hee may proove too seveare in his revendge, Which I with all indevour will prevent Yet to the most censorious I appeale, What coold I lesse have doone to save myne honor From suffringe beneathe skandall?

Distracting, diverting, trivialising, story telling, one-upping and ‘me-too’-isms make light of children’s problems and imply that if something is too hard, we should avoid it.

Lord Irwin […] toyed with the idea of entering upon a fast himself, in the Gandhian manner, to bring peace to India by self-redemption, and though he was dissuaded from this unprecedented gesture, still his approach to Indian politics was tinged with an abnegatory mysticism.