Quotes from William Hazlitt

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

We must be doing something to be happy.

None are completely wretched but those who are without hope and few are reduced so low as that.

Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

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.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Habit is necessary to give power.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.