Walter Bagehot: “Life peers would enable us to use this faculty of our Constitution more freely and more variously.”

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

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.

He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.