Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We… — 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
The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show… — 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
