Walter Bagehot: “A Divine limit to the Divine revealer was impossible, and there was no other source of law.”

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!

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

But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.

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.