A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. – William Hazlitt
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. – William Hazlitt
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. – William Hazlitt
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming. – Vaclav Klaus