The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.
Walter BagehotLife is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
Walter BagehotThe most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
Walter Bagehot