Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
Walter BagehotBut of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.
Walter BagehotA princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
Walter BagehotThe reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.
Walter Bagehot