Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them,… — Augustus 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, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
