John Morley: “Let us abandon all that system of calumny against natives of India which has lately prevailed.”

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

True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.

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.

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.