Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live. — 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
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
The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share
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
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
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
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
There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share
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
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
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
They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share
We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share
The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share
