A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them. — 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
