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One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey, but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.

William Hazlitt

On Going on a Journey · 1822

★ 0.9

Comedy naturally wears itself out-destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

William Hazlitt

1817

★ 1.8

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

William Hazlitt

1819

★ 1.9

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

William Hazlitt

1823

★ 1.9

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

William Hazlitt

On Prejudice · 1839

★ 1.9

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

William Hazlitt

1839

★ 1.9

Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn, and laughter.

William Hazlitt

The Indian Jugglers · 1821

★ 3.5

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

William Hazlitt

1827

★ 3.5

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

William Hazlitt

1819

★ 3.6

Hamlet is a name: His speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. What then, are they not real? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet.

William Hazlitt

1817

★ 4.2

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

William Hazlitt

1821

★ 4.3

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is stuck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

William Hazlitt

1818

★ 5.0

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern-why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

William Hazlitt

1822

★ 5.0

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

William Hazlitt

On Going on a Journey · 1822

★ 5.2