Will Hazlitt Quotes
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not what they lack that chiefly troubles them, but what others have.
The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.
There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.
We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.