Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. – 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

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. – 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
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. – 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