Walter Bagehot: “This matter-of-factness is the growth even in Europe of the two greatest and newest intellectual agencies of our time.”

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.

He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.