Books 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 HazlittA scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
William HazlittThe chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.
William HazlittWe grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
William Hazlitt