By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.
William HazlittReligion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
William HazlittA situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
William HazlittThe 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 HazlittA great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them
William Hazlitt