The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you… — 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
Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart… — 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
