John Morley: “To speak frankly, it seemed to me that the Queen’s peculiar faculty and habit of conversation had disappeared.”

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

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

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

Individuals may recover from even serious sickness; it does not appear to be the way with governments.”—Mr.