Walter Bagehot: “The notion of employing a man of unknown smallness at a crisis of unknown greatness is to our minds simply ludicrous.”

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.

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

The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.

The moderate people of every party must combine to support the Government which, on the whole, suits every party best.