Walter Bagehot: “They cannot endure--they ought not to endure--that a rich, able manufacturer should be a less man than a small stupid…”

Nothing promotes intellect like intellectual discussion, and nothing promotes intellectual discussion so much as government by discussion.

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.

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.

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.