Does monarchy, on its part, contain nothing at all to recommend it? [Bolingbroke] says that he prefers a monarchy to other governments because you can better ingraft any description of republic on a monarchy than anything of monarchy upon republican forms. I think him perfectly in the right.

Sir Walter Scott … set the world in love with dreams and phantoms … with the silliness and emptiness of sham gauds, sham grandeurs, and sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society…. [In the South] the genuine and wholesome civilization of the nineteenth century is curiously confused and commingled with … the duel, the inflated speech, and the jejune romanticism of an absurd past that is dead, and out of charity ought to be buried.