Walter Bagehot: “To conform to the fashion of Rome--whatever the fashion may be, and whatever Rome we may for the time be at--is among…”

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

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.

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 could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.