Walter Bagehot (/ˈbædʒət/ BA-jət; 3 February 1826 – 24 March 1877) was a British journalist, businessman, and essayist, who wrote extensively about government, economics, and literature. Read full biography of Walter Bagehot →
The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Woman absent is woman dead.
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the... →
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
Walter Bagehot (/ˈbædʒət/ BA-jət; 3 February 1826 – 24 March 1877) was a British journalist, businessman, and essayist, who wrote extensively about government, economics, and literature.