809 Quotes by William Hazlitt

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.