Hazlitt, William

"Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others."

"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."

"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

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

"Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity."

"One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect."

"Learning is its own exceeding great reward."

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

"The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature."

"Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others."

"The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about."

"Principle is a passion for truth."

"I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home."

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

"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off admiration." - Characteristics

"The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy." - Characteristics

"The way to procure insults is to submit to them." - Characteristics

"Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong." - Characteristics

"He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies" - Characteristics

"It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world." - Characteristics

"There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there be, they will not let you have it." - Lectures

"Spleen can subsist on any kind of food." - Lectures on the English Comic Writers

"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be." - Lectures on the English Comic Writers

"To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations." - Literary Remains

"No young man believes he shall ever die." - Literary Remains

"We are not hypocrites in our sleep." - On Dreams

"That which any one has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportionable eagerness and haste." - On Personal Character

"Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt: nine out of ten have the inclination." - On Reading New Books

"We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it." - Sketches and Essays

"There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body." - Sketches and Essays

"A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man." - Sketches and Essays

"Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room." - Sketches and Essays

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

"People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking." - Table Talk

"When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country." - Table Talk

"Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken." - The Conversations of James Northcote