I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done… — 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 Image
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
