William Hazlitt

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it read more

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.

One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other
thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith read more

One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other
thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more
stood upon than any other thing in the world.
- William Hazlitt,

I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life read more

I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul