Walter Bagehot: “Even the abstract speculations of mankind bear conspicuous traces of the same excessive impulse.”

The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.

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

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

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.