Walter Bagehot: “She was the great 'free failure' of the ancient world.”

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.

Perhaps such powers as these are what a wise man would most seek to exercise and least fear to possess.

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

That a House of Commons may work well it must perform, as we saw, five functions well: it must elect a Ministry well, legislate well, teach the nation well, express the nation's will well, bring matters to the nation's attention well.