809 Quotes by William Hazlitt

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.