Walter Bagehot: “This is almost as hopeless as asking why Milton was a genius and why Bacon was a philosopher.”

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

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.

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.

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