Walter Bagehot: “But, after all, national character is but a name for a collection of habits more or less universal.”

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

No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.

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.

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.