Walter Bagehot: “Politics are the only occupation a peer has worth the name.”

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

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

That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.