John Morley: “I am sorry that Hartington the other day used the word compromise, a word which has never passed my lips, though I…”

Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.

True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.

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.

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