William Hazlitt

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

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.

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.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.