William Hazlitt

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

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.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

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.