The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of… — 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
Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and… — 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
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of… — 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
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
