Maxioms by Walter Bagehot
The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy read more
The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support.
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not read more
Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.
