Walter Bagehot: “Again, if there had been an excellent aboriginal civilisation in Australia and America, where, botanists and zoologists…”

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

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

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.

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.