Walter Bagehot: “Few nations, perhaps scarcely any nation, could have borne such a trial so easily and so perfectly.”

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.

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

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.