Walter Bagehot

All people are most credulous when they are most happy.

Walter Bagehot

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Walter Bagehot

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

Walter Bagehot

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people’s minds.

Walter Bagehot

The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.

Walter Bagehot

The purse-strings tie us to our kind.

Walter Bagehot

The real essence of work is concentrated energy, and that people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and active people are kept up to their labors.

Walter Bagehot

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Walter Bagehot

A cabinet is a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.

Walter Bagehot