John Morley: “In England its influence made for purity, freedom, and decency, but it developed no new sources of liberal strength.”

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.

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

Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.

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