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The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

William Hazlitt

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

William Hazlitt

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

William Hazlitt

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

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

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

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

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

William Hazlitt

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

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

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

William Hazlitt

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

William Hazlitt

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

William Hazlitt

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

William Hazlitt

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

William Hazlitt