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
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. – William Hazlitt
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one – they show one another off to the best advantage. – William Hazlitt
The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. – William Hazlitt
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. – William Hazlitt
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. – William Hazlitt
Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. – William Hazlitt
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. – William Hazlitt
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. – William Hazlitt
Rules and models destroy genius and art. – William Hazlitt
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal. – William Hazlitt
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. – William Hazlitt
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. – William Hazlitt
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. – William Hazlitt
Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. – William Hazlitt
We are not hypocrites in our sleep. – William Hazlitt
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others. – William Hazlitt
The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. – William Hazlitt
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt
Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves. – William Hazlitt
