William Hazlitt
- Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
(topic: dress)
- One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
(topic: excellence)
- The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
(topic: fame)
- Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
(topic: jealousy)
- The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
(topic: mediocrity)
- 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.
(topic: ocean)
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