We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.
William Hazlitt Quotes
By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
Any one is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character. I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there be, they will not let you have it.
When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country.
