Famous Quotes

Quotes by William Hazlitt

• The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
• There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
• There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
• There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
• 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.
• Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
• 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.
• To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
• To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
• We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
• We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
• You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
• Zeal will do more than knowledge.