Walter Bagehot: “Athens was indeed of another and higher order; at least to us instructed moderns who know her and have been taught by…”

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

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

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

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