Quotes by Hazlitt, William

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for spec >>

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. >>

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the lo >>

Quotations about Churches

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. >>

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over e >>

We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wond >>

A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.

Hazlitt, William