Most men of business think "Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply.… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The caucus is a sort of representative meeting which sits voting and voting till they have cut out all the known men… — 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… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them. — 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
The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional… — 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
