We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.
William HazlittTo create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
William HazlittLife is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
William HazlittThere is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
William Hazlitt