Walter Bagehot: “Just so a royal family sweetens politics by the seasonable addition of nice and pretty events.”

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.

They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!