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
The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints. — 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
A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder 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
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
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
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
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 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
