Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
William HazlittThe greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
William HazlittI am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.
William Hazlitt