Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.
William HazlittTaste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
William HazlittThe smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
William HazlittA man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out [of] malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain, which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
William Hazlitt