809 Quotes by William Hazlitt

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

True friendship is self-love at second-hand.