William Hazlitt

“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.”

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

“If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.”

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

“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.”

“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!”

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

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

“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.”

“Zeal will do more than knowledge.”

“Rules and models destroy genius and art.”

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

“He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.”

“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.”

“Learning is its own exceeding great reward.”

“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.”