John Morley: “It is the combination of these with elevation, with true sincerity, with extraordinary mental force.”

If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.

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…

Can wool repair The colours that it lost when soaked with dye?

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.