The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. — 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
What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct… — 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
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
To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature. — 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
