Walter Bagehot: “The old notion that the Government is an extrinsic agency still rules our imaginations, though it is no longer true, and…”

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.

All savage religions are full of superstitions founded on luck.

And, to the effectual maintenance of such a separation, the exclusion of the President's Ministers from the legislature is essential.

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.