Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
There seems to be an unalterable contradiction between the human mind and its employments. How can a soul be a merchant? What… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It...makes you think that after all, your… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Most men of business think "Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
