Walter Bagehot: “One of the most curious peculiarities of the English people is its dislike of the executive government.”

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

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.

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.

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