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
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. – William Hazlitt
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves. – William Hazlitt
Comedy naturally wears itself out — destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at. – William Hazlitt