William Hazlitt Quotes

“Popularity is neither fame nor greatness. A king (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own. He merely wields the lever of state, which a child, an idiot or a madman can do. It is the office, not the man we gaze at. Any one else in the same situation would be just as much as object of abject curiosity.

- The Indian Juggler”
― William Hazlitt, William Hazlitt: Essays