Walter Bagehot: “On common subjects any member can propose anything, but not on money--the Minister only can propose to tax the people.”

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

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.

But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.