Walter Bagehot: “But in truth it is idle to expect a second chamber--a chamber of notables--ever to resist a popular chamber, a nation's…”

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

Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.