When great questions end, little parties begin. – Walter Bagehot
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. – Walter Bagehot
When great questions end, little parties begin. – Walter Bagehot
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. – Walter Bagehot
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 Bagehot
The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null. – Walter Bagehot