Walter Bagehot: “The deliverance of the speculative intellect from traditional and customary authority was altogether complete.”

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.

They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.

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

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.