William Hazlitt Quotes
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The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness, than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
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The love of fame, as it enters at times into his mind, is only another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority - that of time.
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
[Introspection]
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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be as constantly wound up.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
[Action]
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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 esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
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The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men.
[Learning]
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The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
[Silence]
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The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
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The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
[Public]
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The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
[Adversity]
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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.
[Judgment]
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The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted or who have failed in original composition.
[Critics]
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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
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The soul of dispatch is decision.
[Decisions]
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