Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and… — 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