John Morley: “The course that you purpose is indeed a self-denying, an unworldly, and a noble one.”

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.

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

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.