Walter Bagehot: “If hereditary royalty had been essential to Parliamentary government, we might well have despaired of that government.”

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.

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

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.

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