Walter Bagehot: “And to the unconscious imitation which was their principal tool, no impediment was so formidable as foreign intercourse.”

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

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

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.