Walter Bagehot: “The power was not used, but its existence was as useful as its energy.”

They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.

The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise it.

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.

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