‘Forewarned is forearmed,’ he said to Stephen at breakfast. ‘That is a very fine thought,’ said Stephen, ‘and strikingly original: pray, when did it come to you?’ ‘Oh very well, very well. But if you had said it in Latin or Greek or Hebrew you would triumph for half an hour together, crowing over those who can only express themselves like plain honest Christians: and yet it would be all one, you know.
