Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.
William CobbettIt is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
William CobbettPoverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the shame of being thought poor--it is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country, from the fashion of the times themselves.
William CobbettTo suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.
William Cobbett