Walter Bagehot: “All manner of jealousies and enmities are immediately awakened, and it is always difficult, often impossible, to get…”

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

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.

Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.