Walter Bagehot: “This is the class of highly-cultivated men of business who, after a few years, are able to leave business and begin…”

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.

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.

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.

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