Walter Bagehot: “There is no royal road to political affairs: their detail is vast, disagreeable, complicated, and miscellaneous.”

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.

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.

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