Walter Bagehot: “The women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.”

The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.

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

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

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