William Hazlitt

“Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.”

“Rules and models destroy genius and art.”

“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.”

“Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.”

“Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.”

“The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.”

“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.”

“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.”

“Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.”

“A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.”

“The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.”

“We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.”

“Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.”

“Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.”

“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.”

“Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.”

“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”

“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!”

“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.”

“No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.”