Walter Bagehot

"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 fame of Gibbon is highest among writers; those especially who have studied for years particular periods included in his theme acutely feel and admiringly observe how difficult it would be to s…"

"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 func…"

"Behind every man's external life, which he leads in company, there is another which he leads alone, and which he carries with him apart. We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side o…"

"A Puritan born in France by mistake."

"Every trouble in life is a joke compared to madness."

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"The caucus is a sort of representative meeting which sits voting and voting till they have cut out all the known men against whom much is to be said, and agreed on some unknown man against whom there …"