William Hazlitt Quotes

To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.

One truth discovered one pang of regret at not being able to express it is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

There is nothing good to be had in the country or if there be they will not let you have it.

If a person has no delicacy he has you in his power.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.