Walter Bagehot: “The old excitement of thought has half died out, or rather it is diffused in quiet pleasure over a life instead of being…”

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.

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

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

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.