Walter Bagehot: “The whole office of the Lord Chancellor is a heap of anomalies.”

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.

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.

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.

No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.