We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
William Hazlitt

We must be doing something to be happy.
William Hazlitt

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
William Hazlitt

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
William Hazlitt

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
William Hazlitt

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
William Hazlitt

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
William Hazlitt

Zeal will do more than knowledge.
William Hazlitt