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

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

Woman absent is woman dead.
Walter Bagehot

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Walter Bagehot

Life is a school of probability.
Walter Bagehot

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
Walter Bagehot

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
Walter Bagehot

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
Walter Bagehot