Walter Bagehot: “Impelling power and restraining wisdom are as opposite as any two things, and are rarely found together.”

They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.

Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.

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 moderate people of every party must combine to support the Government which, on the whole, suits every party best.