It is penetrating in analysis, admirable in diction, rich in experience of life and human nature, and truly inspiring in those noble moralities that are the lifeblood of style, and of greater things than mere style can ever be.
Morley reflects on the qualities of a writer's style, emphasizing its moral and inspirational aspects.
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It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.
I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.
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