I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of things from books or from their senses. Ignorance has so far the advantage over learning; for it can make an appeal to you from what you know; but you cannot re-act upon it through that which it is a perfect stranger to. Ignorance is, therefore, power.
William HazlittThe rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
William HazlittEnvy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
William HazlittTo think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William Hazlitt