A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it. — 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
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts. — 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 way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable… — 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
