Walter Bagehot ( 10 of 22 )
Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.
Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.
The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy read more
The notion of a farseeing and despotic statesman, who can lay down plans for ages yet unborn, is a fancy generated by the pride of the human intellect to which facts give no support.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if read more
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if it did.
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips,
Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair;
The Grecian gods are like the read more
The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips,
Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair;
The Grecian gods are like the Greeks,
As keen-eyed, cold and fair.
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
