3 December 2020 William Hazlitt A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone – but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
