Walter Bagehot: “The prize of power is not in the gift of the legislature, and no one cares for the legislature.”

But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.

Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.

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.