There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order--that is, according to their notions… — 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
