William Hazlitt

Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

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.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

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.

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.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

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.

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

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.