Walter Bagehot: “A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.”

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

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.

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.

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