44 Quotes by Augustus Hare

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

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.

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

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?

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

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

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

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

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.