Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.
William HazlittThose who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
William HazlittIf we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.
William HazlittHabitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.
William Hazlitt