The stiff and self-conscious figure of Pitt has remained standing incongruously purse in hand; while his manlier rivals were stretching out their hands for the sword, the only possible resort of men who cannot be bought and refuse to be sold.

A rebellion broke out and was repressed; and the government that repressed it was ten times more lawless than the rebellion.

Fate for once seemed to pick out a situation in plain black and white like an allegory; a tragedy of appalling platitudes.

The heroes were really heroes; and the villains were nothing but villains.

The common tangle of life, in which good men do evil by mistake and bad men do good by accident, seemed suspended for us as for a judgment.