Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants,… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does not at… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is the work… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image