Walter Bagehot: “If there had been no Reform Act at all there would, nevertheless, have been a great change in English politics.”

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.

Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.

There is no ELASTIC element, everything is rigid, specified, dated.