And in doing nothing, you can hardly do amiss.

Let the doers of nothing have something of action forced upon them, and they, too, will blunder and quarrel.
The wonder is that there should ever be in a reforming party enough of consentaneous action to carry any reform.

The reforming or Liberal party in British politics had thus stumbled,--and stumbled till it fell.

And now there had been a great Conservative reaction! Many of the most Liberal constituencies in the country had been untrue to their old political convictions.

And, as the result, Lord Drummond was Prime Minister in the House of Lords,--with Sir Timothy Beeswax acting as first man in the House of Commons.
It cannot be denied that Sir Timothy had his good points as a politician.