Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
William HazlittMen are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.
William HazlittThere is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt