Walter Bagehot: “It is natural that those who by special and admirable culture have come to look at all things upon the artistic side…”

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.

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.

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.