One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It...makes you think that after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded....Naturally, therefore, common men hate a new idea, and are disposed more or less to ill-treat the original man who brings it.
Walter BagehotLife is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
Walter BagehotThe habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
Walter BagehotThe best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.
Walter Bagehot