Walter Bagehot: “No Prime Minister, so popular and so influential, has ever left in the public memory so little noble teaching.”

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

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.

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

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