Walter Bagehot: “He is not the head of the State; he IS the State.”

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.

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

They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.