“That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.”
Other Thomas Hood Quotes
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
Thomas Hood 
56% of people like this quote
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.
Thomas Hood
52% of people like this quote
Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.
Thomas Hood
51% of people like this quote
The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago.
Thomas Hood
50% of people like this quote