Walter Bagehot: “The fixed custom which public opinion alone tolerates is imposed on all minds, whether it suits them or not.”

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.

It is absurd to choose by contested party election an impartial chooser of Ministers.

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.