Walter Bagehot: “I think (though it is not a popular notion) that by far the greater part of the cry for Parliamentary reform is due to…”

No doubt this momentary gain is bought at a ruinous after-cost.

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.

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

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