Walter Bagehot: “The truth is that the propensity of man to imitate what is before him is one of the strongest parts of his nature.”

No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.

The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.