William Hazlitt

Those impeccable authors are the ones who never wrote.

Violent antipathies are always suspicious and reveal a secret affinity.

Silence is a great art for conversation.

Awake men have only one world, but sleeping men have their own world.

Fashion always begins and ends with the two things it detests the most: uniqueness and vulgarity.

When we are busier is when we have more time to have fun.

Man is an animal that feeds on flattery.

I would like to spend my entire life traveling, if someone could lend me a second life to spend at home.

Man is the only animal that laughs and cries, because he is the only one who perceives the difference between what things are and what they should be.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of the hypocrite is hypocrisy itself.

One knows more about the road by having traveled on it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

When something ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a matter of interest.