I once tried to lift a stone I knew would not budge, shouting until my throat was raw, believing my voice could shift the earth. The ground did not tremble, nor did the stone yield an inch, leaving me with only the ache in my chest and the silence of the crowd.
William Hazlitt
@hazlitt · September 21, 2026
“He can no more force that opinion either way, or wrest it from its base in common sense and feeling, than he can move Stonehenge.”