Walter Bagehot: “The abolition of proxies would have made the House of Lords a real House; the addition of life peers would have made it…”

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

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.

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.

The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.