To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
William HazlittPure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.
William HazlittWherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.
William HazlittIf we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.
William Hazlitt