Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
William HazlittOf all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
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 Hazlitt