Walter Bagehot: “But a good Government is well worth a great deal of social dulness.”

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.

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

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