An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

- Walter Bagehot

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words…

- Walter Bagehot

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

- Walter Bagehot

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

- Walter Bagehot

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

- Walter Bagehot

Money is economic power.

- Walter Bagehot

Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.

- Walter Bagehot

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 …

- Walter Bagehot

The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

- Walter Bagehot