John Morley: “Suppose you find plague is conveyed by a flea upon a rat, and suppose you are dealing with a population who object to…”

Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.

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.

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

They might learn how the true gentleman speaks of one whom he cannot but admit to have devoted a long life to the search of truth, and allow to have sacrificed every personal prospect to the promulgation of that which appeared to him as…