William Hazlitt

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

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.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

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

The more we do, the more we can do.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.