Quotes by Cobbett, William

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, s >>

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. >>

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; a >>

Quotations about Education

Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not >>

Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstance >>

Education is the art of making man ethical. >>

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.

Cobbett, William