William Hazlitt

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the…

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to…

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people’s weaknesses…

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with…

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire…

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of…

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures…

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food…

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we…

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who…

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have…

Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater…

Zeal will do more than knowledge…

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone – but…

The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of…