When we cease to look at the House of Lords under its dignified aspect, and come to regard it under its strictly useful aspect, we find the literary theory of the English Constitution wholly wrong, as usual.
Bagehot challenges the traditional view of the House of Lords' role in the Constitution.
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He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.
Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.
Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.
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.
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