Walter Bagehot: “They think cleverness an antic, and have a constant though needless horror of being thought to have any of 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.

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

There is no ELASTIC element, everything is rigid, specified, dated.

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.