John Morley: “Yet it is the influence of good opinion, tardy, halting, stumbling, and broken, as it must ever be, that upholds and…”

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.

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.

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