Quotes by William Cobbett

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of speculation; but which ought to be called Gambling.
– William Cobbett
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
– William Cobbett
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
– William Cobbett
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
– William Cobbett
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
– William Cobbett
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.
– William Cobbett
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
– William Cobbett
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
– William Cobbett
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
– William Cobbett