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
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature. — 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
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Our lives are ruled by impermanence. The challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent… — 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
I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend… — 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
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
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
In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to… — 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
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
No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps… — 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
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
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
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
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on… — William Hazlitt Copy Share
