Walter Bagehot: “There were indeed difficulties which would have baffled most people; but an Englishman whose heart is in a matter is not…”

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

But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.

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.

They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.