John Morley: “He never had much patience with people who cannot bear to hear what they cannot fail to see.”

They might learn how the true gentleman speaks of one whom he cannot but admit to have devoted a long life to the search of truth, and allow to have sacrificed every personal prospect to the promulgation of that which appeared to him as…

Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.

If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.

People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.