No one I think could dream, until by experience he knew, to what an extent in these close personal relations devolution can be carried, and how it strengthens the feeble knees and thus also sustains the fainting heart.
Morley reflects on the profound impact of personal relationships in strengthening resolve and courage.
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I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.
The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.
What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
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