“William Hazlitt”
“Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.”
-- William Hazlitt
“The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.”
-- William Hazlitt
“A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.”
-- William Hazlitt
“Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.”
-- William Hazlitt
“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.”
-- William Hazlitt
“Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.”
-- William Hazlitt
“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.”
-- William Hazlitt
“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.”
-- William Hazlitt
“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”
-- William Hazlitt