John Morley: “The Universe never filled me with such wonder and awe as when I knew I could not account for it.”

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.

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

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.