A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. – William Hazlitt
Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. – William Hazlitt
There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body. – William Hazlitt
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols — it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. – William Hazlitt