3 December 2020 William Hazlitt There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people’s weaknesses.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one – they show one another off to the best advantage.
