Quotes from Augustus Hare

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.

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, to prepare the world for his coming.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

The virtue of paganism was strength the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.

The greatest truths are the simplest.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.