We are not hypocrites in our sleep. – William Hazlitt
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal. – William Hazlitt

We are not hypocrites in our sleep. – William Hazlitt
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal. – William Hazlitt
Comedy naturally wears itself out — destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at. – William Hazlitt
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. – William Hazlitt
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship,” Essays, 1841
People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858