More from Walter Bagehot

  1. To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.
  2. The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in …
  3. The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.
  4. A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious …
  5. Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? and is that confidence wise? These a…
  6. A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
  7. Most men of business think 'Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to go on still.'
  8. You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor... Public opinion is a per…

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