We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.
William HazlittIt might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.
William HazlittBooks 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 Hazlitt