Walter Bagehot: “Taking the House of Commons, not after possible but most unlikely improvements, but in matter of fact and as it stands…”

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.