Quotes from Augustus William Hare

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.

Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.

Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.

How few are our real wants! and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.

Reviewers are forever telling authors, they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault?

They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.