Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
William HazlittThe safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.
William HazlittThe most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
William HazlittThere are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
William HazlittWithout the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
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