William Hazlitt Quotes
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It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
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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.
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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
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I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me
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Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.
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You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.
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There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.
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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
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The youth is better than the old age of friendship.
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The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
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Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
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The more we do, the more we can do.
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We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others
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By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
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We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!
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No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
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A mighty stream of tendency.
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
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Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
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None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.