There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. – William Hazlitt
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home. – William Hazlitt
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. – William Hazlitt
The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant. – Edward Gibbon