Walter Bagehot: “They think cleverness an antic, and have a constant though needless horror of being thought to have any of it.”

That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.

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.

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

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.