Walter Bagehot: “Who is sure that they are the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, of the matter in hand?”

But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.