John Morley: “Reformation is one of those pieces which must be put at some distance in order to please.”

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

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.