Walter Bagehot: “Come what may, you can quicken nothing, and can retard nothing.”

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

If the above reasoning be sound, compulsory constituencies are necessary, voluntary constituencies destructive; the optional transferability of votes is not a salutary aid, but a ruinous innovation.

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

The nation then selected the English policy, but the Crown chose the English Ministers.