John Morley: “In his character the mellowing process has continued to advance, and whatever he may have been thirty years ago, he is…”

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

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

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

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.