Walter Bagehot: “And this imitation and this persecution in long generations have vast physical effects.”

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.

They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.

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.