Walter Bagehot: “With a perfect Lower House it is certain that an Upper House would be scarcely of any value.”

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

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

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

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.