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William Hazlitt - From the Activity category:
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Books category:
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Boredom category:
You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Envy category:
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Fashion category:
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath – tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Genius category:
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Genius category:
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Grace category:
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Grace category:
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Grace category:
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Greatness category:
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Happiness category:
So have I loitered my life away reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Health category:
Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Hope category:
Hope is the best possession. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Hypocrisy category:
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Intellect category:
Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of its ever being otherwise. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Journey category:
One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Knowledge category:
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Knowledge category:
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Love category:
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Methodology category:
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Painting category:
Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Pleasure category:
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Prosperity category:
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Rewards category:
Learning is its own exceeding great reward. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Rules category:
Rules and models destroy genius and art. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Thought category:
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. (William Hazlitt)
William Hazlitt - From the Travel category:
I 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 Hazlitt)
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