The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
William HazlittA situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
William HazlittComedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
William Hazlitt