Walter Bagehot: “I cannot afford to make enemies for those whom I did not appoint.”

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.