Walter Bagehot: “In Religion there was progress, but without it there was not any.”

He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.

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