The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.
Walter BagehotWomen--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.
Walter BagehotA schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
Walter BagehotNine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers - who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them - who, as the proverb went, 'walked into a well from looking at the stars' - who were believed to be useless, if anyone could be such.
Walter Bagehot