Walter Bagehot: “The whole of a caste nation is more various than the whole of a non-caste nation, but each caste itself is more…”

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.

They are above corruption because they are the corruptors.

That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.