Walter Bagehot: “Much short of the compulsory equal division of the Code Napoleon, stringent clauses might be provided to obstruct and…”

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.

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.