Walter Bagehot: “Human nature despises long arguments which come to nothing--heavy speeches which precede no motion--abstract…”

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.

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.

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.