A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
Walter BagehotThe business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using money that he may be asked at short notice to repay, ought to touch, are those which are easily saleable and easily intelligible.
Walter BagehotThe best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.
Walter BagehotMen who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
Walter Bagehot