Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
Walter BagehotA constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Walter BagehotEfficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men, or by a belief in the principles that those men represent, and they are maintained by fear of those men - by the fear that if you vote against them, you may soon yourself have no vote at all.
Walter Bagehot