To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William HazlittOld friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
William HazlittLanguages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.
William Hazlitt