Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is… — 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
