79 Quotes by William Cobbett

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

You never know what you can do till you try.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent so much as the smallness of his wants

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world