Walter Bagehot: “A secret prerogative is an anomaly--perhaps the greatest of anomalies.”

He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.

The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.