809 Quotes by 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.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

Those who can command themselves command others.

The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.

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

What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.