Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.
William HazlittTo be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
William HazlittIt is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.
William HazlittIt is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.
William Hazlitt