William Hazlitt Quote

General principles are not the less true or important because, from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it, or like that secret influence which binds the world together and holds the planets in their orbits.


"Edmund Burke" - The Eloquence of the British Senate (1808)


General principles are not the less true or important because, from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is...

General principles are not the less true or important because, from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is...

General principles are not the less true or important because, from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is...

General principles are not the less true or important because, from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is...