Walter Bagehot: “The House of Lords, as a body, is accessible to no social bribe.”

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.

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

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

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