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
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt: nine out of ten have the inclination — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. (1778 - 1830)” — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him… — 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
