17 Quotes by William Hamilton

May not subterraneous fire be considered as the great plough (if I may be allowed the expression) which Nature makes use of to turn up the bowels of the earth?

If I was to establish a system, it would be, that Mountains are produced by Volcanoes, and not Volcanoes by Mountains.

Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather.

Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

The will of the world is never the will of God.

I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.

But don't you see darling? Giving him an unaffected name like "Spot" would really be the most affected thing of all.