The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.
William HazlittTruth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
William HazlittEvery man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how long it will last. His opinion of himself wants distance, wants time, wants numbers, to set it off and confirm it.
William Hazlitt