Walter Bagehot Quotes About Life
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Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
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Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers - who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them - who, as the proverb went, 'walked into a well from looking at the stars' - who were believed to be useless, if anyone could be such.
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Life is a school of probability.
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Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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