John Morley: “They ought to know that ideals in politics are never realised.”

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

Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.

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

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.