Walter Bagehot: “The catastrophic creation of peers for the purpose of swamping the Upper House is utterly different.”

The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.

The whole history of civilisation, is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

The power of free interchange of ideas being wanting, the ideas themselves were barren.

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.