About Walter Bagehot: Walter Bagehot was a British journalist, businessman, and essayist, who wrote extensively about government, economics, and literature.
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
Woman absent is woman dead.
So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
The greatest please in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
