The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. — 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… — 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… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“In private life do we not see hypocrisy, servility, selfishness, folly, and impudence succeed, while modesty shrinks from the encounter, and merit… — 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
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.… — 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
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without… — 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
