John Morley: “Nothing is like a first morning’s stroll in a foreign town.”

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

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

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

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