Walter Bagehot: “It is allowing one individual, for a moment's pleasure or a stupid whim, to bring terrible and irretrievable calamity…”

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.

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.

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!

The moderate people of every party must combine to support the Government which, on the whole, suits every party best.