No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt
Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun; and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic
William Hazlitt
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
William Hazlitt
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth
William Hazlitt
The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
William Hazlitt
He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves
William Hazlitt