Walter Bagehot: “There was a spirit in it alien to their spirit, and which when they could they have tried to cast out.”

The work would be done so well that we should not want any one to look over or revise 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.

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

Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.