William Hazlitt

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow in order to lead.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.

All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necessary that certain things should be true but that they have been said.

The more we do the more we can do the more busy we are the more leisure we have.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

None are completely wretched but those who are without hope and few are reduced so low as that.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

We must be doing something to be happy.

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.

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.

True friendship is self-love at second hand.