John Morley: “Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil…”

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.

They might learn how the true gentleman speaks of one whom he cannot but admit to have devoted a long life to the search of truth, and allow to have sacrificed every personal prospect to the promulgation of that which appeared to him as…