We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I conceive that words are like money, not the worse for being common, but that it is the stamp of custom alone… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those… — 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
