John Morley: “One should take care lest in quenching the spirit of Midlothian, we leave sovereign mastery of the world to Machiavelli.”

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.

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

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.

Individuals may recover from even serious sickness; it does not appear to be the way with governments.”—Mr.