Walter Bagehot: “The non-combatant population is sure to fare ill during the ages of combat.”

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.

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

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.