Walter Bagehot: “The question we have to answer is, "The House of Lords being such, what is the use of the Lords?”

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.

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.

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

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.