Walter Bagehot: “You will see that I have endeavoured to guide their opinion, and have succeeded upon some most remarkable occasions.”

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

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

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.

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