John Morley: “Die since we must, wherefore should a man sit idle and nurse in the gloom days of long life without aim, without name?”

If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.

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

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.

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