The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
William HazlittThere are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
William HazlittA woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
William HazlittLearning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.
William Hazlitt