Walter Bagehot: “The peculiar marks of semi-barbarous people are diffused distrust and indiscriminate suspicion.”

The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.

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

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.

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