Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
William HazlittThe seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
William HazlittThe most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
William HazlittI like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.
William Hazlitt