Walter Bagehot: “The Monarchy by its religious sanction now confirms all our political order; in George III.'s time it confirmed little…”

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.

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

And again, in political matters, how quickly a leading statesman can change the tone of the community!