More quotes by William Hazlitt

"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."
"Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy."
"the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!"
"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."
"The path of genius is free, and its own"