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.
pain ideas innovation
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
meditation-and-yoga long calming
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
self interest benevolence
Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.
music communication silence
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
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.
long may lasts
The characteristic danger of great nations, like the Romans or the English which have a long history of continuous creation, is that they may at last fail from not comprehending the great institutions which they have created
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.
life stars caring
Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers - who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them - who, as the proverb went, 'walked into a well from looking at the stars' - who were believed to be useless, if anyone could be such.
world being-the-best certain
In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.