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“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.”
William Hazlitt
“I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.”
William Hazlitt
“Prejudice is the child of ignorance.”
William Hazlitt
“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”
William Hazlitt
“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 self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.”
William Hazlitt
“There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.”
William Hazlitt
“He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.”
William Hazlitt
“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”
William Hazlitt
“Even 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 Hazlitt
“Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.”
William Hazlitt
“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.”
William Hazlitt
“Man 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 ought to be.”
William Hazlitt
“Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.”
William Hazlitt
“Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.”
William Hazlitt
“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”
William Hazlitt
“A wise traveler never despises his own country.”
William Hazlitt
“Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.”
William Hazlitt
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
William Hazlitt
“Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.”
William Hazlitt
“We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.”
William Hazlitt
“Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.”
William Hazlitt
“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”
William Hazlitt
“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.”
William Hazlitt
“To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.”
William Hazlitt
“We 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 Hazlitt
“Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.”
William Hazlitt
“Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.”
William Hazlitt
“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”
William Hazlitt
“An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.”
William Hazlitt
“The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.”
William Hazlitt
