...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in… — 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
