Walter Bagehot: “If we look at the earliest monuments of the human race, we find these race-characters as decided as the race-characters…”

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.

The casual line was traced according to the strength of deceased combatants; succeeding generations fought elsewhere; and the hesitating line of a half-drawn battle was left to stand for a perpetual limit.

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

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.