Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before. - William Hazlitt. View more images...

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. View more images...

True friendship is self-love at second hand. - William Hazlitt. View more images...

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. - William Hazlitt. View more images...

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. View more images...

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. View more images...

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. - William Hazlitt. View more images...

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot - William Hazlitt. View more images...

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. View more images...

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted - William Hazlitt. View more images...

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not; this gives us no concern -- why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? - William Hazlitt. View more images...