Walter Bagehot: “Nothing is more intelligible than a moral deterioration of mankind--nothing than an aesthetic degradation--nothing than…”

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.

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.

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