Walter Bagehot: “In reality America is too rich; daily industry there is too common, too skilful, and too productive, for her to care…”

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.

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.