Benjamin Disraeli: “A murder, perpetrated at noonday, in the sight of many persons, cannot be proved in a court of justice.”

Not sympathy, but terror, seals the lip and clouds the eye of the bystander.

If, in deference to an anonymous mandate, he relinquished his holding, he and those who depended on him were outcasts and wanderers; if he retained or accepted it, his life might be the forfeit, but subsistence was secured; and in poor and…

But though a chief landlord, or a stipendiary magistrate, may occasionally be sacrificed, the great majority of victims are furnished by the humblest class.

They baffle the forethought of statesmen, and control even the apparently inflexible laws of national development and decay.