"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!"
― William Hazlitt
Topic(s):
Friendship
More From William Hazlitt
- "A wise traveler never despises his own country."
- "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."
- "Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else."
More In Friendship
- "Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected."― Charles Lamb
- "In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life."― Ernst Mayr
- "Instead of loving your enemies – treat your friends a little better."― E. W. Howe