John Morley: “He discouraged obstruction, and advised his followers to select vital points and to leave others alone.”

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.

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

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…

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