John Morley: “It gave men internal laws, that were stronger than all the external bonds of the civil laws.”

It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.

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

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

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.