Quotes by Hazlitt, William

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every o >>

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

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to bo >>

Quotations about Sea

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, a >>

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomp >>

The sea -- this truth must be confessed -- has no generosity. No displ >>

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.

Hazlitt, William