There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
William HazlittFrom the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.
William HazlittFirst impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
William HazlittThose who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.
William Hazlitt