There are a number of ways in which Lockwood reckons himself like Heathcliff, but he notes that there is a difference between them as well. In the first chapter, in which Lockwood is used by Bronte to establish Heathcliff's character traits, there are a number of instances in which Lockwood likens himself and Heathcliff saying they have the same qualities, in fact at one point Lockwood says:
No, I’m running on too fast: I bestow my own attributes over-liberally on him.
Nonetheless, Lockwood declares and demonstrates that while separation from social contact with others is the reason he comes to Thrushcross Grange, it is similarly the reason Heathcliff stays (well, one of the reasons) at Wuthering Heights:
completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist’s heaven: ... such a suitable pair to divide the desolation
In another comparison that is actually a contrastive comparison, Lockwood is commenting upon their individual capacities for sociability after his first visit to Wuthering Heights to show his respects to his new landlord. First, Lockwood declares Heathcliff intelligent, then happily muses about suddenly feeling very sociable when compared to Heathcliff's sour aptitude for sociability:
It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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