Quotes from William Hazlitt
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
- William Hazlitt
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
- William Hazlitt
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
- William Hazlitt
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
- William Hazlitt
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
- William Hazlitt
Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.
- William Hazlitt
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
- William Hazlitt
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
- William Hazlitt
Well I've had a happy life.
- William Hazlitt
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.
- William Hazlitt
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.
- William Hazlitt
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
- William Hazlitt