Quotes by Hazlitt, William

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the >>

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have >>

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. >>

Quotations about Goodness

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy >>

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously >>

Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals >>

If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will --the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.

Hazlitt, William