Walter Bagehot: “Some more potent causes must co-operate, or we should not have these enormous diversities.”

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.

The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.

He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.