Walter Bagehot: “Any Minister who advised the Queen so to use her prerogative as to endanger the safety of the realm, might be impeached…”

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

I do not think I put this too high when I say that a most important if not the most important object of early legislation was the enforcement of LUCKY rites.

But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.

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.