The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Half the business of modern education is taken up in learning not to be ignorant; a process peculiarly unfavorable both to strength… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image