Walter Bagehot: “If the highest social rank was to be scrambled for in the House of Commons, the number of social adventurers there would…”

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

Thirdly, we see why so few nations have made rapid advance, and how many have become stationary.

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.