Walter Bagehot: “But, after all, in a certain sense, England is a success in the world; her career has had many faults, but still it has…”

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

They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.

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

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.