The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.
William HazlittThe love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William HazlittThe most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
William HazlittTo be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
William HazlittThey are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.
William Hazlitt