There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
William Hazlitt

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

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
William Hazlitt

Those who can command themselves command others.
William Hazlitt

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
William Hazlitt

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
William Hazlitt

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
William Hazlitt

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
William Hazlitt

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt

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

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
William Hazlitt

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
William Hazlitt

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
William Hazlitt

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
William Hazlitt

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
William Hazlitt

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
William Hazlitt

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
William Hazlitt

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
William Hazlitt

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
William Hazlitt

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
William Hazlitt