Walter Bagehot: “It would be as reasonable to say that those who take a scientific view of nature need think little of the influence of…”

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.

There is no ELASTIC element, everything is rigid, specified, dated.

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.

The Parliament, the laws, the press were human institutions; but the Monarchy was a Divine institution.