John Morley: “To insist on ascribing complex results to single causes is the well-known vice of narrow and untrained minds.”

Can wool repair The colours that it lost when soaked with dye?

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.

A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.