John Morley: “This departure of the might of France represented in the garrison, takes a weight off Roman wills and energies, which…”

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.

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.