The Government was made the head of all society, all intercourse, and all life; everything paid allegiance to the sovereign, and everything ranged itself round the sovereign--what was next to be greatest, and what was farthest least.
Bagehot describes the central role of the Government in society and its relationship with the sovereign.
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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.
Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.
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.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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