Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
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“Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.”
Source: Table-talk: Or Original Essays
“A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“Whatever interests is interesting.”
Source: The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
“The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.”
Source: Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son
“The more a man writes, the more he can write.”
Source: Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, and Characters of Shakespear's Plays
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
Source: Miscellaneous writings
Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings
“There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.”
Source: Table talk
“We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.”
Source: Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life
“There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.”
“I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.”
Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
“A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.”
Source: Political Essays: With Sketches of Public Characters
“Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.”
Source: Sketches and Essays
“Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings
“If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
“A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.”
Source: The round table: a collection of essays on literature, men, and manners, by W. Hazlitt [and J.H.L. Hunt].
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: Political essays, with sketches of public characters ...
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“True friendship is self-love at second-hand.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.”
Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)