Walter Bagehot: “The wildest and wickedest king's mistress would not plot against an invulnerable administration.”

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.

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

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.

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!