Walter Bagehot: “Flatterers may suggest that the democratic empire will become hereditary, but close observers know that it cannot.”

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

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

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

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