It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!” — 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
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 present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an… — 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
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
