Quotes by Walter Bagehot

The following are quotes from Walter Bagehot:

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

Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind.

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

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.

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

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

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

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