John Morley: “He had abundant and genuine public spirit, and a strong love of truth according to his own lights, and he was both a…”

For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.

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

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.