William Hazlitt

The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.