The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices. – William Hazlitt
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. – William Hazlitt
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal. – William Hazlitt
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. – William Hazlitt
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. – William Hazlitt
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. – William Hazlitt
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people’s weaknesses. – William Hazlitt
To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. – William Hazlitt
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. – William Hazlitt
