True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no… — 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 slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not… — 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
