Walter Bagehot: “We are not now concerned with perfection or excellence; we seek only for simple fitness and bare competency.”

He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.

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.

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.

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.