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
Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the… — 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
