William Hazlitt Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.”

“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”

“The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.”

“A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.”

“He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.”

“Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.”

“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.”

“Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.”

“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.”

“When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.”