Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
William Hazlitt

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
William Hazlitt

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt

Reflection makes men cowards.
William Hazlitt

Rules and models destroy genius and art.
William Hazlitt

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
William Hazlitt

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
William Hazlitt

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
William Hazlitt

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
William Hazlitt

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
William Hazlitt

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

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
William Hazlitt

The busier we are the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
William Hazlitt

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
William Hazlitt

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
William Hazlitt

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
William Hazlitt

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

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
William Hazlitt