Walter Bagehot (1826 – 1877) was a banker, essayist, and one of the early editors of The Economist, with writings covering politics, finance, history, and literature.
“How can a soul be a merchant? What relation to an immortal being have the price of linseed, the fall of butter, the tare on tallow, or the brokerage on hemp? Can an undying creature debit petty expenses and charge for carriage paid?...The soul ties its shoes; the mind washes its hands in a basis. All is incongruous.”
“The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.”
While strolling through a friend’s estate:
“Ah, you’ve got the church in the grounds. It’s well the tenants shouldn’t be quite sure that the landlord’s power stops with this world.”
At breakfast, noticing his nephew Guy,when he was eight or nine, having trouble opening his egg:
“Go on, Guy. Hit it hard on the head. It has no friends.”
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