Walter Bagehot: “They are still thought to be greater and better.”

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

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.

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