4 Walter Bagehot Quotes on Character

Walter Bagehot quotes on character

21. A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity repulsive. It represents a bit of human nature - a good bit, of course, but a bit only - in disproportionate, unnatural and revolting prominence.

24. It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

25. [Of Guizot] A Puritan born in France by mistake.

37. History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.