You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
William HazlittNatural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.
William HazlittThe severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
William HazlittArt is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.
William Hazlitt