The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
~ William Hazlitt
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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.
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
Reflection makes men cowards.
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
