The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.
William HazlittIf we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.
William HazlittIt is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one.
William HazlittThe way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
William Hazlitt