Walter Bagehot: “They are not eager to press the tenets of their party to impossible conclusions.”

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.

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.

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

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