Walter Bagehot: “The worship is the more politically important because it is the worship of the political superior for the political…”

The lessons are good where its primitive assumptions hold, but may be false where those assumptions fail.

But it is natural also that persons used to analyse political institutions should look at these anomalies with a little tenderness and a little interest.

Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner.

It is natural that those who by special and admirable culture have come to look at all things upon the artistic side, should start back from these queer peculiarities.