Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience and reverence, it is not without sincere sorrow that I have beheld many of the sons of these men driven from their fathers' mansions, or holding them as little better than tenants or stewards, while the swarms of Placemen, Pensioners, Contractors, and Nabobs...have usurped a large part of the soil.More William Cobbett quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.More William Cobbett quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.More William Cobbett quotes [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.More William Cobbett quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.More William Cobbett quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]