The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.