Edmund Burke: “We must no more make haste to be rich by parsimony than by intemperate acquisition.”

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.

But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.

The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.