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.
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
William HazlittMan is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William HazlittOur friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
William HazlittWithout the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
William HazlittIt is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
William Hazlitt