It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.
William HazlittMankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
William HazlittWe find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
William HazlittLove turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
William Hazlitt