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Quotes of the Day for 10 April 2005 - William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt was born at Maidstone, Kent, England on this day in 1778, the son of a Unitarian minister who supported the American Revolution. The family spent five years in Philadelphia and Boston, but returned to England in 1788. Hazlitt trained for the ministry but turned to writing, particularly encouraged by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He reported on Parliament, was probably the first serious English art critic, reviewed the theatre, wrote scholarly books about literature, and crafted many well-regarded essays.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

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 might have been.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

Those who can command themselves command others.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
     - All from William Hazlitt, 1778 - 1830

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