The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. – 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 player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. – 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
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. – William Hazlitt
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. – William Hazlitt
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. – E. M. Forster