Quotes by Hazlitt, William

The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their o >>

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinar >>

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thi >>

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which ga >>

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps i >>

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Hazlitt, William