The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love. - William Hazlitt. View more images...
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. - William Hazlitt. View more images...
We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes. - William Hazlitt. View more images...
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal. - 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...
I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home. - William Hazlitt. View more images...
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends. - William Hazlitt. View more images...
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. - William Hazlitt. View more images...
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. 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...
It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species. - William Hazlitt. View more images...
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. - William Hazlitt. View more images...
Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune. - 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...