Walter Bagehot: “Just so with the contrary change, from an animating to a relaxing place,--the naturally lazy look so happy as they do…”

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.

And therefore party is inherent in it, is bone of its bone, and breath of its breath.

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.