John Morley: “I know of no more imposing and momentous transaction in the vast scroll of the history of human government.”

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

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

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

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