No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. – William Hazlitt

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. – William Hazlitt
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging 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
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. – William Hazlitt
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? – Washington Irving, The Sketch Book: Westminster Abbey