William hazlitt

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.