A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with… — 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 world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being… — 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
Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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
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
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it. — 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
