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. – William Hazlitt
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. – William Hazlitt
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. – William Hazlitt
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. – William Hazlitt
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. – Charles de Lint