809 Quotes by William Hazlitt

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

The busier we are the more leisure we have.

We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.