Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. — 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 professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not… — William Hazlitt Copy Share
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
