William Hazlitt Trying Quotations

What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.

Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?

When a person dies who does any one thing better than anyone else in the world, which so many others are trying to do well, it leaves a gap in society.