Inspirational Quotes by William Hazlitt

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

— William Hazlitt

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

— William Hazlitt

We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.

— William Hazlitt

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

— William Hazlitt

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

— William Hazlitt

The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.

— William Hazlitt

Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

— William Hazlitt

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is…

— William Hazlitt

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

— William Hazlitt

A thought must tell at once, or not at all.

— William Hazlitt

The more you do, the more you can do.

— William Hazlitt

Envy is littleness of soul.

— William Hazlitt

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

— William Hazlitt

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

— William Hazlitt

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

— William Hazlitt

Faith is necessary to victory.

— William Hazlitt

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

— William Hazlitt

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

— William Hazlitt

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

— William Hazlitt

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

— William Hazlitt

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

— William Hazlitt

Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.

— William Hazlitt

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

— William Hazlitt

Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.

— William Hazlitt

Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.

— William Hazlitt