Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that th... - William Hazlitt

"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."

"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming."

"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."

"the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!"

"The path of genius is free, and its own"