Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
From William Hazlitt
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
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