Walter Bagehot: “The popular homage clings to the line of god-descended kings; it is transmitted by inheritance.”

No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.

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 had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.

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