809 Quotes by William Hazlitt

Principle is a passion for truth.

We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

The young are prodigal of life from a superabundance of it; the old are tenacious on the same score, because they have little left, and cannot enjoy even what remains of it.

Habit is necessary to give power.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

To great evils we submit; yet we resent little provocations.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have