Walter Bagehot: “The experiment of conducting the administration of a public department by an independent unsheltered authority has often…”

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.

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

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

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