Walter Bagehot: “An Opposition, on coming into power, is often like a speculative merchant whose bills become due.”

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.

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.

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.