There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes! — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things… — William Hazlitt Copy Share
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on… — William Hazlitt Copy Share
