Bagehot

Cited as Bagehot. — 7 quotations

All men seem agreed what is to be done; the contention is how the subject is to be divided and defined.

What high concentration of steady feeling makes men dare every thing and do anything?

The . . . occasional writing of the present times.

We shall dread a blow from the punitive hand.

Now we play rounders, and then we played prisoner's base.

It is charged with stored virtue.

The totem, the clan deity, the beast or bird who in some supernatural way attends to the clan and watches over it.