Walter Bagehot Quotes and Quotations
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.
The best reason why monarchy is a strong government is that it is an intelligible government: the mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.