Walter Bagehot: “He was a great partisan, and he applied a capacity of argument, and a faculty of intellectual argument rarely equalled…”

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.