Warts and all …

… The Critic's Critic | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

He was too much the moralizer and too little the moralist,” Epstein perceptively notes of Hazlitt. “Montaigne looked to himself to understand the world. Hazlitt looked at the world in puzzlement over why it did not understand him. Not quite the same thing.”