John Morley: “All our habits, all our instincts, all our history lead us in another direction.”

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

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.

For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.