Walter Bagehot: “But--and here is the capital distinction--the functions of the House of Commons are important and CONTINUOUS.”

The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.

But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.