Walter Bagehot: “Equally various likewise in various cases has been the fate of the mixed race between the white man and the native…”

They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.

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.

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!