The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.
William HazlittBooks are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.
William HazlittI am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
William Hazlitt