John Morley: “They eagerly recognised the genius of scientific discovery; but they had no eyes for the genius of moral holiness.”

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

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

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.

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.