Walter Bagehot: “The queen bee was taken away, but the hive went on.”

That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.