About William Hazlitt:
William Hazlitt is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. Yet his work is currently little read and mostly out of print. During his lifetime he befriended many people who are now part of the 19th-century literary canon, including Charles and Mary Lamb, Stendhal, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats.
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
William HazlittThe true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
William HazlittThere is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
William HazlittA scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
William HazlittThe soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
William HazlittEvery man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
William Hazlitt