Walter Bagehot: “Above all things our royalty is to be reverenced, and if you begin to poke about it you cannot reverence 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.

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

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