Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehotwas a British journalist, businessman, and essayist, who wrote extensively about government, economics, and literature...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth3 February 1826
fear long judgement
So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
faces looks impossible
Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.
real essence energy
The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
aids cardinals establishment
The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good Bank.
ambassadors agents diplomacy
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
stupidity consistency quality
What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.
reflection doe melancholy
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
marriage facts brilliant
A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
daughter wife political
Whatever expenditure is sanctioned even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish the ministry must find the money. Accordingly, they have the strongest motive to oppose extra outlay.... The ministry is (so to speak) the breadwinner of the political family, and has to meet the cost of philanthropy and glory; just as the head of a family has to pay for the charities of his wife and the toilette of his daughters.
kind obstruction greater
Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.
summit nations
Nations touch at their summits.
sacrifice giving political
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
magic daylight
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
progress poison late
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.