Walter Bagehot: “And our notion of written leases is as out of place in a world without writing and without reading as a House of Commons…”

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

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

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

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