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.

— William Hazlitt

Good-nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition.

— William Hazlitt

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

— William Hazlitt

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty hesitation or incongruity.

— William Hazlitt

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

— William Hazlitt

He understands the texture and meaning of the visible universe, and 'sees into the life of things,' not by the help of mechanical instruments, but of the improved exercise of his faculties, and an intimate sympathy with Nature. The meanest thing is not lost upon him, for he looks at it with an eye to itself, not merely to his own vanity or interest, or the opinion of the world. Even where there is neither beauty nor use—if that ever were—still there is truth, and a sufficient source of gratification in the indulgence of curiosity and activity of mind. The humblest printer is a true scholar; and the best of scholars - the scholar of Nature.

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Hazlitt

Horus non number Niki Serena (I count only the sunny hours).

— William Hazlitt

I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore, I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.

— William Hazlitt

If a person has no delicacy he has you in his power.

— William Hazlitt