
“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”
85
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
The Monthly Magazine
“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”
85
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
“Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.”
"Investigations of a Dog"
The Complete Stories (1971)
“There is more in a common bubble than those who have only played with them generally imagine.”
[Charles Vernon Boys, Soap-bubbles and the forces which mould them: Being a course of three lectures delivered in the theatre of the London institution on the afternoons of Dec. 30, 1889, Jan. 1 and 3, 1890, before a juvenile audience, Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1896, 10]
" On the Clerical Character http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Political/ClericalCharacter.htm" (January/February 1818)
Political Essays (1819)
“A general is not easily overcome who can form a true judgment of his own and the enemy's forces. Valour is superior to numbers. The nature of the ground is often of more consequence than courage. (General Maxims)”
Amplius iuuat uirtus quam multitudo.
De Re Militari (also Epitoma Rei Militaris), Book III, "Dispositions for Action"
“There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.”
Of Boldness
Essays (1625)
“The Intellectual in America”, p. 5
A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables (1962)