Walter Bagehot: “Every sort of philosophy has been systematised, and yet as these philosophies utterly contradict one another, most of…”

They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.