An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
Walter Bagehot

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