True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it. — Julius Charles Hare Eye Copy Share Image
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. — Julius Charles Hare Becoming better Copy Share Image
The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature. — Julius Charles Hare Business Copy Share Image
The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one. — Julius Charles Hare Best things Copy Share Image
By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less… — Julius Charles Hare Brave Copy Share Image
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest,… — Julius Charles Hare Black Copy Share Image
Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact… — Julius Charles Hare Courage Copy Share Image
If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine. — Julius Charles Hare Able Copy Share Image
Everybody has his own theater, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwrite, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into… — Julius Charles Hare Actors Copy Share Image
A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. — Julius Charles Hare Adversity Copy Share Image
Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children! — Julius Charles Hare Children Copy Share Image
Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into… — Julius Charles Hare Actors Copy Share Image
To no kind of begging are people so averse, as to begging pardon; that is, when there is any serious ground for… — Julius Charles Hare Begging Copy Share Image
Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu,--very… — Julius Charles Hare Far away Copy Share Image
What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of… — Julius Charles Hare Four Copy Share Image