William Hazlitt

“I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.”

“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 nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.”

“The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.”

“Zeal will do more than knowledge.”

“If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.”

“Learning is its own exceeding great reward.”

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

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

“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.”

“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.”

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

“The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.”

“The incentive to ambition is the love of power.”

“There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.”

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

“There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.”

“A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.”

“The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.”

“Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.”

“It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”

“A wise traveler never despises his own country.”

“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”

“There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.”