William Hazlitt
The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
William HazlittWe often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
William HazlittEven in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
William HazlittThe art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
William HazlittIf you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.
William HazlittI should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.
William HazlittThe essence of poetry is will and passion.
William HazlittProsperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William HazlittMan is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they might have been.
William HazlittMemory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been.
William HazlittThe contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
William HazlittThe truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.
William HazlittWe must be doing something to be happy.
William HazlittLearning is its own exceeding great reward.
William HazlittIf a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
William HazlittThe poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.
William HazlittThat which any one has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
William HazlittGrace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
William HazlittPoetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
William HazlittOur energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
William HazlittThe humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
William HazlittGrace in women has more effect than beauty.
William HazlittThose who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
William HazlittThe 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 self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
William HazlittLove turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
William Hazlitt
