Walter Bagehot: “She became great enough to beat them before she advanced far enough to contend with them.”

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

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.

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.