John Morley: “The victory would have been shorn of half its glory if any other chief had been given to the party.”

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

For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.

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

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.