Walter Bagehot: “As individuals the peers were the greatest people; as a House the collected peers were but the second House.”

But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

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.

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