A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one – they show one another off to the best advantage. – William Hazlitt
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. – William Hazlitt
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt
The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation. – William Hazlitt