There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. — 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
There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the… — 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
Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to rankling spleen and bigotry;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
As a general rule, those who are dissatisfied with themselves will seek to go out of themselves into an ideal world. Persons… — 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
