Walter Bagehot Quotes
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Woman absent is woman dead.
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
