Quotes from William Hazlitt

Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.

Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.

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

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.

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

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

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.