Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. William Hazlitt on friendship
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. William Hazlitt on friendship
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. William Hazlitt on friendship
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. William Hazlitt on friendship
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! William Hazlitt on happiness
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. William Hazlitt on health
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. William Hazlitt on history
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home. William Hazlitt on home
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors. William Hazlitt on hope
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. William Hazlitt on hope
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. William Hazlitt on imagination
The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. William Hazlitt on knowledge
Zeal will do more than knowledge. William Hazlitt on knowledge
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. William Hazlitt on learning
Learning is its own exceeding great reward. William Hazlitt on learning
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. William Hazlitt on life
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! William Hazlitt on marriage
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. William Hazlitt on nature
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. William Hazlitt on nature
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. William Hazlitt on nature