Augustus Hare Quotes

36 quotes in 525 categories

• What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
• 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.
• Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
• It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
• Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
• Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt…
• There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out…
• To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
• A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the…
• It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all…
• 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…
• Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him,…
• 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,…
• Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
• The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
• As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

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