Walter Bagehot: “In the meantime our statesmen have the greatest opportunities they have had for many years, and likewise the greatest…”

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

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.

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

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.