Walter Bagehot: “The English not only possess better machines for moving nature, but are themselves better machines.”

The moderate people of every party must combine to support the Government which, on the whole, suits every party best.

He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.

It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.

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