I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of things from books or from their senses. Ignorance has so far the advantage over learning; for it can make an appeal to you from what you know; but you cannot re-act upon it through that which it is a perfect stranger to. Ignorance is, therefore, power.
William HazlittThere are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
William HazlittWe are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.
William Hazlitt