William Hazlitt Quotes
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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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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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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
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Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.
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Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.
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We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
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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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The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
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Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
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The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.
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A mighty stream of tendency.
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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
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But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.
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One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.
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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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Our lives are ruled by impermanence. The challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent lives. Soka Gakkai Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.
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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.
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A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.