There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.
William HazlittWhen a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
William HazlittThe severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
William HazlittIt is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.
William Hazlitt