All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.
Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.