William Hazlitt
Rules and models destroy genius and art.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Knowledge
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.Collection: History
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.Collection: Love
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.Collection: Health
A wise traveler never despises his own country.Collection: Travel
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.Collection: Travel
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.Collection: Poetry
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.Collection: Faith
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.Collection: Beauty
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Friendship
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!Collection: Marriage
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.Collection: Love
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.Collection: Great
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.Collection: Brainy
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.Collection: 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.Collection: Hope
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.Collection: Learning
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.Collection: Peace
The more we do, the more we can do.Collection: Motivational
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.Collection: Truth
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.Collection: Respect
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.Collection: Work
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.Collection: Art
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Imagination
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Respect
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.Collection: Poetry
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.Collection: Strength
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.Collection: Friendship
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.Collection: Chance
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.Collection: Learning
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: Friendship
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.Collection: Travel
Zeal will do more than knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.Collection: Courage
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.Collection: Friendship
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.Collection: Nature
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
The busier we are the more leisure we have.