John Morley: “In trying to remedy plague, you have to encounter the habits and prejudices of hundreds of years.”

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.

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.