Walter Bagehot

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

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

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

The greatest mistake is the trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

Walter Bagehot

Life is a school of probability.

Walter Bagehot

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

Walter Bagehot

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Walter Bagehot

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

Walter Bagehot

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

Walter Bagehot