Walter Bagehot Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: February 3, 1826 - March 24, 1877
Birthday: February 3
Death: March 24
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
source: Walter Bagehot (2010). “Physics and Politics: Or Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of Natural Selection and Inheritance to Political Society”, p.62, Cambridge University Press
topic: Art, Light, History, Best History
