Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.

Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.

People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.