Walter Bagehot: “We want many critics of ability and knowledge in the Upper House--not equal to Lord Grey, for they would be hard to…”

But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.

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

They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.

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.