The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. – William Hazlitt
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. – William Hazlitt

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. – William Hazlitt
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. – 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
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. – William Hazlitt