Walter Bagehot: “It is not from men of large wealth that a very great impetus to organic change should be expected.”

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.

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

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

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.