"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!












True friendship is self-love at second hand.
More William Hazlitt quotes
"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.
"We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them and...
"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.
"It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.
"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-lov...
"He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.