Walter Bagehot: “Abroad a man under Government is a superior being: he is higher than the rest of the world; he is envied by almost all…”

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.

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.

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.