You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. – 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
The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. – William Hazlitt
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. – William Hazlitt
There is an Indian proverb or axiom that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but, unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person. – Rumer Godden, A House with Four Rooms