William Hazlitt

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

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

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

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.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

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