John Morley: “It was a painful demonstration how thin after all is our social veneer, even when most highly polished.”

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

It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.

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…

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