Walter Bagehot: “The world knows what you seem; it does not know what you are.”

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.

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.

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.